"In the end, we agreed to never say this." Simba finished as he walked with his mate and cubs. "He would've been the future king, instead of Kiara becoming queen."

"So I got a brother?" Moyo asked.

Nala shook her head. "You would've had a brother."

"He still does," Kiara whispered to herself. "Why didn't you tell me this earlier? I spent my life knowing I was an only cub! When in truth, I wasn't."

"Kiara, we just didn't want you to think it was your fault," Simba said. "We don't really know what to expect from telling you this, but we just wanted you to know about him. It feels right to have you know about Kion."

Kiara took a few steps away from her parents before growling at them "Maybe you should've thought telling me a lot sooner about him than you did in real life. Maybe then, I would've known why I kept seeing him everywhere!" With that she took off running.

"Kiara!" Simba called.

"Simba, she was right in the end." Nala hung her head low. "We should've told her sooner."

Moyo held his breath throughout the falling out before moving to nuzzle his parents, but they ignored him and kept to themselves. The young cub sighed and sat down. "Does this mean... I'm not the only boy born to you guys?"

"No." Simba shook his head. "Your brother beat you to it."

"Will Kiara be okay?"

"We don't know, son. We don't know."

Moyo hung his head. "Oh."

Kiara was running to the point where she didn't want to run anymore. But her legs wouldn't stop to allow her to walk anymore. They kept running and running. She was sure she wasn't even in the Pride Lands by this point, but she ended up at the exact place where she pleaded to speak with Kion. Or his spirit that was.

She laid down and looked into the water.

Her reflection was shining back up at her as the moon rose over her head. Half of her reflection was gone and she wasn't surprised. In a flash she hated how she ignored the twist of her heart when she first saw Moyo. She should've went and looked for Kion, to cheer him up. Say how she wanted to go tell her friends about her new brother.

Any lie would've done!

But instead she just had to ignore it. She had to keep herself from running right back to the lion that was her other half. His only means of being on this planet. And she had to go and ruin everything. Had to ruin the happiness around them.

All because of Moyo.

"I wouldn't beat yourself up, princess."

Kiara wiped her head around to see her long time friend, Kovu, standing there. His mane was coming in nicely as he stood there with his eyes filled with sorry. Even if he had no idea what was going on, he still felt sorry for his friend.

That told her something.

"He could just be using you in order to get to dad."

The sound of Kion's voice in her head made her wince and turn away from him. Kovu moved to sit next to her and waited until she was ready to speak to him. Just wait for the girl to be ready and everything would be okay in the end.

"I take it you don't wanna talk?" Kovu asked.

"My parents hide something from me," Kiara growled. "They hide the truth about my twin brother, Kion."

"What they say?"

"He died at our birth and they never told me. I had to believe I was an only child of their's until Moyo came along."

"Rough."

Kiara eyed him. "You don't care, do you? Because it's not your problem?"

"Even if it was, I wouldn't think too much of it," Kovu explained. "Sure, they kept something from you, but they had their reasons. They thought they were doing what was good for you."

"They didn't."

Kovu shifted on his paws with a slight feeling of awkwardness. "So, uh..."

"I missed you."

"I missed you too."

A silence hung around them. Both weren't able to know what could possible lift the silence, but they tried they're hardest to make sure they didn't end up being mean to each other.

Without warning, Kiara placed her head under Kovu's chin and nuzzled him. Being nuzzled back with a surprised, but she purred gently as they nuzzled for a few moment before she pulled away. A smile resting on her face, as was there one on him.

"If we were in the same pride," Kovu began. "What are the odds of us being bethored?"

"A pretty good one."

"Do you miss him?"

Kiara stopped. "Of course I do. I could feel when he was sad, and for the first time I ignore it, it was Moyo's birth. I didn't know he would vanish."

"Maybe you were his only thing keeping on the earth." Kovu suggested. "Maybe he let you go for a good reason."

"We had a fight, a few days before Moyo's birth. He said it was fine, but I could tell it wasn't. I think Kion knew it would lead to this." Kiara mumbled. "I wish I could take it all back, Kovu!"

"To have one more day with him?"

"Just one more day..."

Turning back, both lions held a confused expression as they thought they heard something. Something like another lion coming towards them. But all they saw was nothing.

"What was that?" Kovu asked and Kiara shrugged.

"I don't know..."

Then it happened again and Kiara held her breath.

"Maybe it was nothing..."

She let the breath go to agree.

"Yes, maybe it is nothing."

Yet something told her it was nothing. Something told her it was much more than nothing.