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A few months after helping the Jungle Pride, Kiara felt an odd feeling.

At first, she began to think that maybe it an animal she had eaten, but it became clear that it was something else. Something wonderful.

"Kovu?"

The dark lion looked up from his zebra leg to see his mate looking at him with a large smile. "You okay?" He asked.

Kiara nodded, smiling. "Yes, I'm great actually...because, well, I'm pregnant!"

Kovu's eyes widened as he stood. "Seriously?"

The golden lioness nodded.

"That's...that's amazing!" He cried. I'm gonna be a dad!

Kiara laughed as he pranced around, joyfully.

"I'm gonna be a dad!" He cried aloud.

"What about me being a mom?" Kiara asked, smiling.

"Yeah, yeah, that's great too!" Kovu said, his smile matching hers.

"The Great Kings are going to grant us a cub!"

After the news, Kovu and Kiara went on a hunt to celebrate. They soon returned to their den with an antelope and feasted.

That night Kovu lay awake, looking out at the night sky. He looked to his mate and smiled at her and the life that forming within. He then looked up at the stars, as if looking for answers. Kiara had told stories of her grandfather Mufasa and great grandfather Ahadi and all they had done for their land.

"Kovu..." The young lion frowned as he turned away from the voice.

"Do you expect to be a good father? Look inside yourself."

Kovu turned to face the owner of the voice and growled. "I'm not you, Scar. And you're not me. Kiara believes in me."

Scar smiled. "But do you believe in yourself?"

Kovu gulped.

"You are more then what you have become." And with that Sacr disappeared leaving Kovu alone with his mate.

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"Kovu-"

"No, no, I insist. I'll do the hunting, you just relax."

"Kovu, I still have a few weeks before I start getting bigger."

But Kiara's mate shook his head again. "No, that's my final word."

The lioness groaned, half in annoyance and half amusingly. Who knew Kovu was such a worry wart?

Whilst Kovu went hunting, Kiara decided to relax atop their cave in the sun.

Then she noticed two of the zebras and their calf and smiled. The male was teaching his daughter how to run. The scene reminded her of the days she and her father spent together. She remembered how her mother taught her to hunt. She giggled when she remembered how her uncles Timon and Pumbaa would argue over which bugs tasted the best.

A single tear dropped from her eye as she sniffed and shook her head. The past was behind her, now.

Determined to look ahead, she sat up and stretched before looking over the land she and Kovu now called home.

She wondered what had happen after she had left. She knew her father, as fair and as kind as he was, would never change his views towards the outlanders.

She'd always been taught to stay close to Pride Rock, but Kiara had her father's curiosity, which often led her into trouble. But it also led her to Kovu.

She remembered when she laid eyes on his bright green ones.

Kovu was not like the other outlanders, he was kind and gentle. If only her father saw what she did.

Soon she saw Kovu returning with their evening meal and Kiara realized how much time had passed. She smiles as she ran to meet him.

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A few months later, Kiara awoke to a wonderful surprise. The cub had kicked!

"Kovu!" She cried as she raced to find him.

The young lion was getting a drink when he saw his mate running towards him. "Kiara! What are you doing!?" He asked. "You should be resting!"

"Kovu! The cub kicked!" Kiara cried.

Kovu smiled as he walked over and nuzzled her. "Soon we'll have our family." He said.

Kiara nodded before frowning.

"What's wrong?" Kovu asked.

"I don't know the first thing about raising a cub. My mother said she would help me when the time came that I was going to have them..."

Kovh nodded sadly. Though he had only known her a short while, Nala was a very kind and noble. If not for her, the Pride lands would be in ruins, run by the tyrant King Scar.

"You're going to make a great mother and I'll be right there beside you every step of the way."

Kiara smiled.

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"You're kidding."

"No, Kovu I just have this craving that only those will satisfy."

Kovu raised an eyebrow as his mate paced on their cave. "But, Kiara...bugs?"

"I know, it sounds disgusting, but please, Kovu, would you just go grab some? Maybe just like a leaf full?"

Kovu frowned as he looked outside at the pouring rain. "Now?"

Kiara nodded and he shuddered. "Fine."

It wasn't easy but Kovu managed to find various different bugs and beetles on a large leaf. Grabbing the leaf carefully, he raced back to the cave.

Kiara smiled as he arrived his fur soaked and annoyed look upon his face.

He dropped the leaf to the floor and Kiara smiled as she grabbed a worm and slurped it up, making Kovu shudder once more.

"Slimey, yet satisfying." She said, feeling as though her uncles would be proud. "Do you want one?" She asked, offering a beetle to her mate. But Kovu... politely declined and she popped in her mouth with a satisfying crunch.

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"Kovu..."

Kovu groaned, as he opened one eye which fell on Kiara sleeping soundly beside him.

"Kovu!"

The lion growled as he looked up into the face of his adopted father. "Haven't heard from you in awhile." He said, feeling annoyed.

"You fool, watch your tongue."

"Why are you here? Haven't you gotten it through your head that I will never follow you."

Scar frowned. "Maybe not you..." He then turned his attention to Kiara and or rather the cub that was growing inside. "But there are others."

Kovu felt his blood boil as he growled and pounced forward, but struck nothing. "You will not lay a paw on my cub!"

"Temper, temper."

"Our cub will good and pure, not some evil being bent on power! He will learn to respect and care!"

Scar glared.

"He will never be you."

"Kovu?"

The dark lion turned and saw Kiara awake with a look of concern upon her face. "Are you okay?"

Kovu frowned as he turned back to where Scar was standing but he had disappeared.

"Kovu?"

"I'm fine."

Kiara sat up and put her head under his chin. "Do you want to talk about it?"

Kovu shook his head. "Later, we have other things to worry about."

Kiara smiled, before her eyes widened.

"Kovu... the cub is coming!"