Chapter 4: Dreams and Reality

Pride Rock was always peaceful at night. All the animals of all herds slept peacefully in their dens as twighlight covered the land.

However one of the most peaceful places to sleep was at Pride Rock.

Inside all members of Pride Rock slept peacefully. Lionesses left and right were sleeping to their minds and hearts content.

Everyone slept like cubs after a hard days of work and keeping the cricle of life in balance.

King Simba and his wife Queen Nala slept peacefully at night although Nala was half asleep having trouble trying to doze off.

Nala usually was able to sleep but at times she would wake up in the middle of the night at random times and she didn't know why. But she decided to let that happen and would eventually return to bed.

Nala looked around at everyone sleeping.

Her daughter Kiara slept calmly at night letting her dreams taking over her head. And her son Kion slept well as always after defending the Pride Lands with his friends. As for Simba he was sleeping like a cub and Nala always found that to be adorable.

She smiled at her family as the sight of them looking so innocent while sleeping was cute to her.

Almost everyone in Pride Rock was sleeping peacefully, all except one lioness cub.

Nala heard grunting noises and looked to the direction of the noise. She saw Zuri who was tossing and turning in her sleep. Usually she was not the one to dream a lot, and even if she was it would mostly be about everyone in the Pride Lands admiring her looks.

But unlike her usual dreams this one was about something or rather someone else.

Thankfully her noise didn't wake any other lionesses up however, Nala was wide awake and noticed her.

As Nala observed Zuri as she moved she let her curiosity overtake her thoughts.

"What in the Pride Lands is making her toss and turn like that. Usually I dont see her acting like that when I'm awake, but now she is acting differently in her sleep.", Nala thought.

Nala continued to observe Zuri as she was moving on the ground.

On the outside looking at Zuri like this was strange, but inside her head was a dream and a rather different one at that.

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It was a sunny day in the Pride Lands as Zuri was relaxing at her favorite watering hole in the savannah.

She then decided to get a refreshing drink of water to satisfy her thirst.

As she lapped the crystal blue water with her tounge she heard a rustle in the grass next to her.

Zuri immediately began feeling nervous and but before she had time to react someone emerged out of the grass.

Immediately her nervousness went to joy as her heart pounded as she looked at the figure.

It was Kion with a smile on his face the Zuri loved to see oh so much. Just looking at it made her heart beat more times than she can count.

The two cubs started walking twords eachother and looked at eachother with passion in their eyes as well as smiles on their faces.

Kion was the first to speak with his voice of romantic purpose.

"Hey Zuri your looking very beutiful today but its not suprising since your naturally good looking."

Zuri giggled at this comment and blushed.

"Thanks Kion I never though you would say that to me.", Zuri said with a nervous smile.

Kion smirked and looked at Zuri directly into her eyes and admired her beauty.

"Zuri has anyone ever told you that you have the most beutiful eyes ever?"

Zuri's faced lightened up more at that complement and giggled once more. "No Kion no one has ever told me that before."

"Well Zuri your eyes sparkle like a crystal blue lake being hit by the sun, and not only are your eyes beautiful but your fur is amazing. It lookes like the sun setting always elegent and beutiiful.", Kion said with confidence.

"Kion I never knew you thought that. But to be completly homest I think your the most handsome lion I've ever seen.", Zuri replied with passion lust in her voice.

"Well Zuri I'll always be handsome just for you and nobody else but you."

"Oh Kion you always know what to say to make me embarrased."

Kion smiled and walked twords her. Be then lowered his head and nuzzled her passionatly. Zuri began nuzzling back to rerurn the gesture. The two felt eachothers fur and blush at the feeling of it.

Zuri has never felt more happy in her life before and started to bring out the words she wanted to say when Kion saved her.

"Kion I lo-"

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Zuri woke up with a pounding heart and began breathing heavily. Nala immediately saw this and began to lie on the ground to act like she was sleeping. She didn't want Zuri to find out she was watching, but kept an eye slightly opened to keep observing.

Zuri was still breathing heavily shocked about what she just dreamed about. She couldn't believe she dreamed of Kion.

"I dreamed about him!? Why would I do that?", she thought.

She began feeling worried about feelings twords Kion. It was one thing to nuzzle him and be flustered about it but now she was dreaming about him.

Zuri looked around to see if she woke anyone one else up and thankfully she thought she didn't.

She dicided to go outside to think about what had just transpired.

"I need some fresh air.", she thought.

Zuri standed on all four of her legs and started tip toeing past every sleeping lioness in the den in order to avoid supsicion.

As she sneaked by she her gaze met a sleeping Kion.

He was sleeping peacefully like a cub breathing quetly as he layed down. Nala who was kept peeking at Zuri noticed this and felt so much curiousity.

As Zuri looked at Kion she let out a sigh full of lust. Nala wanted to gasp but realized she couldn't.

"Did she just let out a sigh at my son? What is going on with her and Kion? Then again Kion did seem embarrassed about talking at dinner.", she thought.

Zuri shaked her head realizing what she was doing and exited the den. Nala silently got up and started folllowing her out of the den. She also sneaked by sleeping lionesses to make sure Zuri didnt catch her. As she neared the cave entrance she hid behind the corning of the den entrance and noticed Zuri looking at the stars.

Zuri stared aimlessly at the stars and breathed heavily. She let her thoughts do the talking.

"I dreamed about him and I liked it. Why am I like this what happened to me? I never dream about him or anyone else, but after the crocodiles I felt completely different about him and that I saw a different side to him."

The realization then hit her as he figured out the reason to everything. The reason why she nuzzled Kion, why she gets all flustered and embarrassed by looking at him even mentioning him, and why she is dreaming about him.

Zuri gasped as she realized the answer and started shaking her head. Nala kept watching her, eager to find out more.

She then heard one of the last words she would expect Zuri to say in her life.

"Do I really love Kion?", she said to herself.

Nala gasped silently at what she just said. "Zuri has a crush on my son? Then again this explains why she nuzzled him, and why she sighed at him while he was sleeping. Maybe all that tossing and turning of her was her having a dream about Kion.", Nala thought.

Nala then backed away slowly having heard enough. She decied to go back to sleep and think about what Zuri said.

Zuri also decided to stop thinking and decied to go back to sleep to wake up for a new day.

"Hopefully this will all go away tomorrow and everything will be back to normal tomorrow. I hope.", Zuri thought to herself.

End of Chapter 4