Hakuna had indeed gone hunting that morning, taking the twins with him.

"Ok, Almasi and Kopa, you two are coming with me."

"Where are we going?" The twins looked at eachother.

"Hunting."

"Cool!" Almasi grinned.

"Are we going to kill something?"

Hakuna smiled at the twins, "Yes Kopa we're going looking for field mice."

"Field mice?! I thought we was going hunting, for like zebra or something like that." Kopa whiled, while Almasi and Hakuna rolled their eyes.

"You'll hunt larger game when your older." Hakuna simply replied.

The trio continued on until they came to a waterfall with a few tunnels around. Hakuna sniffed the air, smirking when he caught the scent of meekats. "Well Kopa, it looks like we won't be having field mice. Come on, I found our hunting ground. Let's go get Adilah, I'm sure she dying to have a hunt."

~O~

Adilah awoke to Uzuri snuggling into her paws. With a soft smile, Adilah begun to groom the tiny cub, frowning at how dirty she was. Great, now I have to clean the twins as well, speaking of which. Where are they?

Adilah got up and checked the outside, frowning when no one was in sight. The amber eyed princess sniffed the air, relaxing when she smelt Hakuna and thetwins nearby.

"Adilah!" She heard Kopa in the distance, she laid in the sun when she heard a squeak from behind her.

"Ada."

Shocked, the eldest princess looked over her shoulder to see Uzuri with the biggest smile on her face.

"Ada!" The youngest cub smiled even bigger.

"You said my name..." Adilah whispered, still in shock. Smiling the eldest heir rolled over and grabbed the cub, cuddling her until she squeaked and tried pushing her away.

"Adilah, we just found a good hunting spot. You in?" Hakuna came trotted into the cave, with the two cubs behind him

"Yeah! And it's near this big waterfall!" Kopa smiled, while Almasi nodded her head.

"Uzuri just said me name." Adilah smiled, showing all her teeth, "Oh and of course we'll come."

"Really?" Hakuna asked, poking the cub with his nose, causing her to giggle.

"Come on Uzuri, say my name." Adilah cooed at the cub, who was loving the attention she got.

"Ada, Ada, Ada!"

Hakuna laughed, "Say mine."

"No mine!" Kopa suddenly appeared.

"No say 'Masi."

"Mmm.. mas..masi.."

"She said it first! Beat that." The orange cub smiled, licking Uzuri on the head.

Adilah stood, "Come on, guys. I'm starving," She grabbed the cub and walked next to Hakuna who smiled at her.

~O~

The small pride made it to the waterfall quickly, "I think it's best if we teach one cub at a time." Hakuna said, "We'll go with Almasi first."

Adilah nodded and put Uzuri in a patch of grass, Kopa sitting down next to her. "I'll be back in a few minutes."

Kopa nodded and continued to try get Uzuri to say his name. Adilah smiled and padded over to her sister and friend. "I'm ready."

"Come on! I wanna learn to hunt! Daddy said I can't until I'm big like you!" Almasi bounched around, "I'll make you proud, Mum and Dad."

"C'mon champ, let's go get something to eat."

The three lions silently walked along the river, with Almasi stepping on twigs or tipping stones everynow and again. They walked some more when Adilah spotted a small animal sitting on a rock, smirking the princess inched closer, her father's advice in her mind.

"Ok Adilah, you must stay close to the ground and try not to make a sound." Kovu said, gently pushing a young Adilah closer to the ground.

"Ok, I got it. Close to the ground, yep." Adilah nodded, smiling at her father who smiled back at him.

"And slowly move towards it... and pounce!"

Adilah had pounced on her mother, who laughed and nuzzled the cub.

But this wasn't her cubhood, this was the real world where Adilah knew she had to get a animal to feed her siblings. Shaking her head the lioness broke away from Hakuna and Almasi who were stalking a bird a few metres away, the princess continued to stalk the animal, who was arguing with an older one by the sounds of it, perfect. Two birds with one stone.

"All I'm saying dad, is that we should have a few tunnels around here incase something does happen." Adilah heard the young voice say, she also saw small arms thrown up in the air.

"I brought everyone here to stop digging tunnels! And now my own son wants to dig them?! Oh boy..." The older voice responded.

"But dad! I have pups on the way!" The younger one argued.

Adilah peered through the grass to see two male meerkats, one old and the other young, arguing with the young one pacing back and forth, and a warthog. Strange, the princess raised an eyebrow.

"Teeko, listen to me," The old one put a hand the young's shoulder. "If you start digging the everyone will-"

"Uh, Timon..." The warthog looked at the patch of grass Adilah was hiding in.

"Not now Pumbaa." The old meerkat waved the warthog off, continued to lecture his son, "Everyone will start and life will go back to the way it was before."

"Timon? Pumbaa? They sound familar..." Adilah furrowed her brows, thinking when it hit her. Ask for Timon and Pumbaa... Nala's voice whispered next to Adilah, causing her look to the side, seeing nothing the lioness just shook her head, focusing on the unsual three.

"What's so bad about how life was? That's just how meerkats have lived for decades!"

"Timon..."

"Shush Pumbaa." The older meerkat, Timon, shushed the warthog again, crossing his arms he simply stated, "It's not as if there's any predators around." Crunch. "Pumbaa. Tell me that was you."

The warthog shook his head, his hoof raised, pointing to the lioness who sighed, knowing she was caught, and stood up.

"Uh, Dad..." The young meerkat pointed to where Adilah had stood up behind his father, "L-l-lion!"

Timon slowly turned and paled seeing the young lioness toward over him. Adilah nervously smiled, showing her teeth. Timon fainted.

"Woah there mister," Adilah caught the old meerkat, setting him down on the ground. "Uh are you Pumbaa?" The princess asked the young meerkat who was holding his chest, pressed up against a log. The meerkat swallowed and shook his head, nodding the warthog next to him. "My grandmother sent me to find you and Timon, she said you could help us."

"Us?!" The meerkat squeaked.

Adilah nodded, "Me, my siblings and another lion." Sensing the animals' fear, Adilah quickly added, "Don't worry! I'm not gonna eat you!"

"Who is your grandmother?" Pumbaa had calmed down and approached the lioness. Those eyes... The warthog thought.

"Nala."

Pumbaa opened his mouth to say something when Timon groaned. Sitting up the meerkat held his head, "Uh, Pumbaa, where's Simba when you need him..."

"You knew my grandfather?!" Adilah's ears perked up, a smile forming on her face.

"AH!" The old meerkat screamed, crawling away from Adilah to stand behind his son. "Who are you, lady?"

"My name is Adilah, I am the first born child of-"

"Adilah! Are you alright? I heard a scream." Hakuna came running into the clearing, Almasi right behind him. "Oh, you found food." The rogue eyed Pumbaa who looked about to faint.

"No! These are the family friends I was talkimg about. Can you please go and get Kopa and Uzuri?" The amber eyed princess asked, wanting to be alone with the prey animals.

"Uh, ok. C'mon Almasi." Hakuna turned away, confused.

Adilah waited for the pair to be out of hearing range before contiuing, "As I was saying, I am the first born child of Kovu and Kiara-"

"Your Kovu's kid?" Timon asked, shocked.

"Well, yeah." Adilah looked offended at the way the old meerkat asked, "But that's not important! My grandmother, Nala sent me here, saying you would be able to help."

"Help?"

"Yeah, Rogues attacked Priderock and killed my grandfather-"

"Simba's dead?" Pumbaa asked, his eyes wide.

Adilah nodded sadly, letting a few tears fall. "And I'm assuming my grandmother and parents are too."

"Oh boy..." Timon muttered, before placing a hand on Adilah's paw, "Look kid, I'm sorry for your loss and I'm honored that Nala sent you to us. But why? You look about the age that you could hunt on your own and with that lion surely you could provide for the cub-"

"I have a younger sister who opened her eyes yesterday and still needs milk."

Timon's eyes widen, before sighing, "I guess we have room for four-"

"Five."

"Five?" The old meerkat looked up at Adilah questioning.

"That cub you just saw is a twin."

"Five more animals." The old meerkat smiled up at the lioness, any friend or relative of Simba's was a friend of his. His son on the other hand looked at his father like he had gone mad.

"Dad! They're lions! They'll eat us in our sleep! One moment we'll be asleep on the floor, the next we'll wake up in her stomach!" The young meerkat semi yelled, throwing his arms around.

"Pfft, please. I raised this one's grandfather and babysat her mother, all by myself-" Pumbaa snorted loudly, "With Pumbaa's help, of course."

"Dad!"

"Teeko. I trust her, you should aswell considering she will be staying with us."

"Your dad's right. We've known her family for quite some time now and they've never tried to eat us, except once."

Hakuna walked through the clearing, Uzuri in his mouth with Kopa and Almasi by his side. Nodding at the meerkats and warthog, he sat next to Adilah. "You could have told me your friends were meerkats..."

Adilah sheepishly smiled and shrugged. Timon stood up and yawned, "Well, Princess. We better get you and your little family settled in. C'mon Pumbaa." The old meerkat jumped on the warthogs back, his son settled for walikng.

"Adilah. I'm hungry." Kopq said, causing Pumbaa to stop. Timon turned around. "If you's hunt, you have to eat it away from here, but kid," The old meerkat looked at Kopa, "We've got something better."

~O~

Oh Timon, I wonder what you have instore for poor little Kopa. The link at the bottom of the page is to my deviantart profile where I will be uploading the references. I have done adult Kopa already,

Hakuna- Why do you make seem so...stiff and serious?

i don't! You just have to wait for the story and characters to develop probably.

Hakuna- Sure, whatever floats you boat.

I can kill you off you know!

Hakuna- Whatever, I'm going,

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