Smile, Anana Banana!

By corset-rebellion-follower

Disclaimer: I don't own TLK.

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Chapter 4- Honey and Poison

I lay under a large tree, sleeping peacefully and basking in the warm sun coming through the slits in the leaves.

"Anana, honey, wake up."

At first, since I was addressed as "honey", I thought it was Ma. She always called me that. I opened one of my eyes halfway. It wasn't Ma. It was Timon. My eyes popped open and I jumped. "Don't scare me like that! I thought you were Ma," I said, readjusting my position in the soft grass near the tree trunk.

He lay down next to me and wrapped his arms around me. "Sorry. I thought you were faking being asleep so you wouldn't have to talk to me," he said softly. I snuggled closer to him. "So, any particular reason why you blew up at Swifty, Razi, and me?" he asked.

I squeezed my eyes shut tight. That was the last thing I wanted to talk about.

"Anana." He lifted my chin so I could look him in the eye. "Talk to me. You know you can tell me anything."

Yeah, with the chance of you bursting out laughing. I sighed. "I just don't like it when people talk about me like I'm not standing next to them. It annoys me."

"Anana, a lot of things annoy you. I annoy you," he said.

"Well, then you'd better add this to your list," I said bitterly.

"Ok, seriously, what is going on with you? All of a sudden, you're all moody. It's really hard to help you if I don't know whether you're going to blow up in my face or start crying a river! I'm a meerkat, not a mind reader!" he yelled.

"Well sorry that I'm not easy to take care of, but I'm not even sure what's going on with me, I'm just like this! I've been like this for practically my entire life! You of all people should know that!" I yelled back. It could have possibly been caused by my neglective parents and my whiney sister, I thought bitterly.

He didn't yell back at me. He just sighed, looking sad. I felt pretty horrible too. Yelling never really made me feel better, but it let me get out my anger. "Sorry, Timon. I just… have a lot of steam and anger left in me. But it really does annoy me when people act like I'm not there."

He hugged me tightly and didn't say anything. It was a pretty bitter silence.

"Kind of reminds you of when we hated each other, doesn't it?" he asked, finally speaking. I raised an eyebrow.

"What?"

"When we hated each other. And we would just go on like this all day. Only you usually won the argument and no matter who had the better comeback, I would usually get some sort of injury," he said. I giggled. He was right. We would fight for hours. It was childish, but I didn't really have much better to do until I met Swifty. I started giggling again.

"What? What's so funny? This is supposed to be a serious moment!" Timon said. I stifled my giggles.

"You're right, I'm sorry, I was just thinking about something funny," I said. "Mind letting me in on this hilarious joke?" he asked dryly.

"I was just thinking of this one fight we had."

Anana was sitting by herself, looking up at the clouds. She watched as a lion- shaped cloud drifted by. She immediately thought of Simba and how he had failed to visit her so far.

"Thanks a lot," she mumbled.

"You're welcome." It was Timon.

"What do you want?" Anana asked resentfully.

"Geez, Anana Banana, someone woke up on the wrong side of the oasis." Anana clenched her teeth. He was still calling her that.

"Sorry, but your presence is causing my eyes to bleed, Timon. Mind going somewhere else?" she said.

"What's that supposed to mean?" he asked.

"Let's face it, you're not exactly the most handsome meerkat I've ever seen," she said nonchalantly.

"I'm better looking than you!" he exclaimed.

"Yeah, sure. So where's your girlfriend?"

"Are you offering?" he asked, pressing his nose up against hers and smiling flirtatiously. She pinched his nose.

"I would rather date a hyena than you, Timon." She pushed him away and walked off.

"Bet you wished you hadn't said that, huh?" Timon said triumphantly. I pinched his nose.

"Not really. It was pretty funny to watch you struggle for breath when I held you nose. Have you ever heard of breathing through your mouth?" I asked. He pulled my hand off. "Besides, you will never be better looking than I am, Timon," I said.

"I know. I've always thought you were beautiful. I would never have admitted it then, but I did," he confessed.

"Uh huh, sure Timon." He kissed me.

"It's true. I did."

Timon and Pumbaa were walking through the Pridelands. "Come on, Pumbaa, let's get going!" he said, pulling on Pumbaa's ears.

"What's the rush Timon?" Pumbaa asked.

"I still want to get Simba back for sneaking up on me a few days ago and nearly scaring me to death," Timon said. Pumbaa started running. "Now that's what I'm talking about!" Timon yelled against the wind. Pride Rock was in sight. They ran the rest of the way and up onto the pointy rock. Then they stopped to catch their breath. Pumbaa peeked into the cave.

"Looks like someone's visiting!" he whispered. Timon raised an eyebrow.

"Who is it?"

"I don't know, I can't see them," Pumbaa answered. Timon shrugged.

"Come on, Pumbaa. Let's go see who's the guest of honor." He hopped onto Pumbaa's back. They rode into the cave.

"Hey, guess who it is!" Timon called. The lions all stopped what they were doing and looked at him. "We decided to come visit you guys. Aren't you lucky?" Timon said, throwing his arms into the air.

"Let me guess. Timon?" Timon looked down. A female meerkat with very dark fur was looking up at him. He froze on the inside for a minute. She was the most beautiful meerkat he had ever seen. But he snapped out of it.

"Hey, whose the chick?"

"Uh huh. I bet that's what was really going through your mind at that moment," I said, rolling my eyes.

"It's true! I really did think you were the most beautiful meerkat I had ever seen. And since I was normally hiding from bullies in the tunnels, I saw a lot of female meerkats," Timon said. I shrugged, but I couldn't help blushing a little. "So do you forgive me for acting like you weren't there when you were? And for yelling?" he asked hopefully.

I smiled. "I suppose so. But don't let it happen again," I warned. He kissed my cheek.

"I won't. I promise." I laid my head on his chest.

"So why haven't I heard anything about this Razi person? You say you know him so well," Timon said quietly. I smiled a little.

"I guess I could tell you. If you're really that curious…"

A/N: Hey people! Just a very quick note on something important. Thank you very much to bean15, Jack Stryker, and Second Daughter of Eve for sending me suggestions for songs. And see you next chapter! Holla!