Authors Note: ok so I'm not doing very well with my chapters at the moment sorry :( and when I'm done with these next like one or two chapters it should start being easy again so just bear with me for now. Thanks! Please review anymore ideas you have! Happy reading!

"Nala?" My mother asks.

"Yes?" I ask back.

"Do you ever feel that you might not be spending enough time with Kiara?" She asks hesitantly.

"What do you mean?" I ask again.

"Well, I mean Simba has been spending a lot of time with her, but you've been distracted so..." She leads off.

"Huh I never thought of that, I see what you mean mom. I'll spend more time with my daughter." I agree.

When Kiara comes home with Tishana and Najooki I beckon her over to me. "What's up mom?" She asks.

"Do you have plans to play with Tishana and Najooki tomorrow?" I ask.

"Not yet." She looks over at them.

"How would you like to spend the day with me tomorrow?" I ask hopefully.

She smiles, "I'd love it. But where is this coming from?"

"Your grandmother pointed out to me that I might not be spending as much time with you as a mother should with her daughter." I smile.

She shrugs, "that's right."

"What do you want to do?" I ask her.

"Well I know my first hunt is still a few months away but I want to learn how to hunt. You're the best hunter in the pride, will you teach me?" She asks hopefully.

I think for a moment then smile, "I'd be glad to."

The next morning I take Kiara to the hunting grounds. I point out a herd of buffalo. "Now listen young lady, we are not out here to hunt I'm just showing you. So don't even think about running out there." I warn her.

"I won't mom, don't worry." She assures me.

I smile, "good, now what you need to really focus on is being quiet. If they hear you they'll run. They hear well so you have to watch where you're going. If you see a leaf do not step on it or kick it, step over it, you see a pebble step over it."

"Alright, now how do I kill them?" She asks.

I'm a little surprised at this but I proceed. "You have to run fast enough to jump on it, once you're on it you have to dig your claws into in. It'll try to kick you off so you'd better have a good grip. Clamp your teeth around it's neck as hard as you can, it'll kill it even faster." I tell her.

She nods, "can you go hunt one, I wanna watch."

"Well." I think for a moment, "alright."

I slowly begin to sneak up on it, I scan the herd carefully thinking of which one I wanna get. I then see the smallest one. I step over a rock and a leaf and I run. The herd begins to run away from me. I steer them in the opposite direction Kiara is. I jump onto the smallest. It doesn't put up a very good fight, it wasn't much fun. I bite it's neck and it collapses. I drag it back to Kiara.

"Great job mom." She smiles.

"Thank you sweetheart." I nuzzle her.

"Tell me about your first hunt." She begs.

"My first hunt didn't turn out the way I planned." I tell her.

"Please mom, I wanna hear it." She begs again.

"I was about your age about 4 months old. Scar was king and Zira was queen. Scar had told me that if I could prove myself to be a good queen he would betroth me to his unborn son. Scar and Zira decided that they needed more hunters so they decided all the cubs would hunt too. All the cubs would hunt a field mouse or a bird. Zira told me to be a queen I would have to be the best hunter and impress everyone and to do that I had to hunt with the adults. I stupidly listened to her and followed the adults. I pounced on a fully grown zebra and was kicked off and knocked unconscious. Let's just say when I woke up Grandma Sarafina was not happy." I say.

"Wow, Zira was out to get you from the beginning." Kiara says.

I laugh, "I've never thought of that, yeah I guess she was."

"Mom could you tell me more about Kopa?" She asks.

I sigh, "what do you wanna know?"

"What was he like?"

"He looked like your father but his personality was like mine." I tell her.

"I would've liked to meet him." She sighs.

"I'm sure he's watching over you right now, wishing he could be alive now to meet his sister."

"I hope so." She says.

"Let's go back home." I suggest.

When we get home the hunting party already went hunting for lunch. After lunch, which was zebra, Kiara runs to my mother. "Grandma, mom showed me how to hunt,"

"Did she now?" My mother smiles.

"She told me about her first hunt when she was my age, Zira told her to hunt with the adults and she was knocked unconscious and you were so angry." Kiara laughs.

My mother laughs with her, "I remember that, Nala you were so cute."

"Were? In my opinion she still is." Simba says coming into the cave.

"Aww you're sweet."

I nuzzle him and he nuzzles back.

End of part 9