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Nuka scowled as he saw Kovu and Vitani outside of the cave. He wondered what they were doing, not that he cared about them. He didn't want to be stuck in a cave babysitting some lioness from the Pride Lands. He slightly turned his head as he saw Kiara sitting there with her head bowed. Her eyes were half-way closed as if she was in deep thought.

Kiara regretted that she went against her father's words. He told her to hunt in the Pride Lands, not go and chase hyenas. She wished that she could turn back the time and correct her actions. She looked up as she saw Nuka collapsing on the ground. A sly smile made its way to her lips as she thought of escaping from the cave. She had done that quite a lot when she was a cub and she hoped that it would work. She stepped around Nuka and tip toed away.

"Oh no you don't missy," Nuka suddenly snapped as he jumped in front of her. Kiara gasped as she took a couple of steps back. "Back, go back," Nuka ordered as he swung his paw in the air.

Darn Kiara thought as she went to the back of the cave again.

Nuka looked out of the cave. "If only Scar and mother could see what a great job I'm doing!" he said as he did a jump in the air. "Take that Kovu," he said, "who is a good guard now?"

"Kovu?" Kiara asked as she raised an eyebrow at that name. Where had she heard that name before? It sounded vaguely familiar. She thought of the Outlanders that she had seen when she was taken here. Only three were male while the others were females. This lion was definitely not Kovu, the oldest was Scar, and the youngest could have been him. Kiara didn't get a good look at him but there was something familiar about him.

"Yeah Kovu," Nuka suddenly said, "the Chosen One. That little termite," he mumbled as he scratched his ears to get rid of the crawling insects. "I just don't get why he was chosen to take Scar's place. What's wrong with me?" he asked as he looked over at Kiara.

Kiara kept silent and only looked at him. Have you seen yourself? she thought as asking him.

"He thinks that Kovu is worthy enough to have an heir, ha!" Nuka laughed. An heir? he thought. That means that he needs a queen but he can't have one because he is still young. I am the older sibling and I can get myself a queen wait...he looked over at Kiara. YES! he mentally yelled. "Hey princess," he said as he turned his head and looked at Kiara. "Maybe we started off on the wrong paw," he said as he stalked over to her and sat down in front of her, "my name is Nuka."

"Pleasure," Kiara said with no sense of enthusiasm, "maybe you should let me go, Nuka, before I make you."

Nuka chuckled at her heated words, "no can do princess. I am guarding you by the king's orders. Speaking of royalty," he said as a sly smile crept up his face, "are you aware that the oldest of the lions need a mate to make on heir?"

"I am part of a royal family," Kiara told him, "so yes, I am aware of that." She thought about Khairi. He had grown up to be a lion of course with a nice body structure and such but he was still the self-centered lion that Kiara didn't like. She was glad that her parents hadn't betrothed them...yet.

"And you are aware the oldest of the lion has to have a queen right?" Nuka continued to ask her.

Kiara wondered on what he was trying to get to. Was he suggesting that she should mate with...him? Her eyes opened wide as Nuka began to walk close to her. "What are you doing?" she asked as her back made contact with the wall.

"Has anyone told you that you are one pretty lioness?" Nuka said as he got closer to her.

"Get away from me!" Kiara said as she pushed Nuka with her paw.

Nuka looked at her up and down and gave her another smile, "ooh, a feisty lioness are you? Where did you get that characteristic from?" he circled around her. Yes, she seems like the right mate for me he thought as he stopped in front of her. "Come my sweet," he said as she approached her. "We'll make wonderful music together."

Kiara furrowed her eyebrows at him. Her muscles tenses as her instincts told her to attack him. She jumped back as Nuka continued to stalk her. "Stay away or I will scratch you," Kiara warned him as she held her paw in the air.

"My passion is starting to burn for you," he told her, completely ignoring her threat.

And your face is going to burn! Kiara thought as she took a swipe at him.

Nuka's head flew to the left when Kiara scratched him with her paws. "OWWW!" he screamed as his yells echoed from the cave and into the open.

Kovu's and Vitani's heads perked up when they heard him screaming. They ran back to the cave to see what had happened. When they arrived, they saw Nuka who had his paw on his cheek and Kiara who looked like she was ready to attack him again. Nuka moved his paw away from his cheek and looked at the blood that was smudged onto it. He looked at Kiara and glared at her.

"What happened?" Vitani suddenly asked.

"She scratched me!" Nuka yelled as he pointed at Kiara with his paw.

"He was trying to seduce me!" Kiara yelled back.

"You liked it right?" he asked as another smile stretched across his face.

Kiara made a disgusting face at him. She watched as Vitani grabbed Nuka and pulled him out of the cave before anything happened between them. Kovu looked behind him and saw his older siblings leaving the cave. He turned around and looked at Kiara.

Kiara almost gasped at what she saw. This lion had the features of the cub she met a couple of moths ago when she was a cub herself. His fur was a little darker than the fur he had when he was young, but he had the same green eyes. "Kovu?" she suddenly said.

Kovu glared at her as if he didn't recognize her. After months of being brainwashed by Scar, he had grown to hate the Pride Landers, lions and lionesses alike. "How did you know my name?" he asked as he walked up to her.

Kiara's smile faltered. "Don't you remember me?" she asked. "I played with you when we were cubs. We were almost killed by those crocodiles remember?"

Kovu looked indifferently at her. "Right," he slowly said, "I played with a Pride Lander who is nothing but a spoiled princess," he spat.

"What?" Kiara whispered as he looked at him. When she had met him when they were cubs, she liked him for who he was. Now he seemed to be more fierce and not to mention mean. Guess she was wrong about him. She bowed her head again and wondered what her parents were doing. Her father was probably going insane as to why she hadn't returned yet.

"That was not necessary," Kovu suddenly spoke up as Kiara looked at him, "you had no right to slap my brother like that."

"I was only trying to protect myself," Kiara told him, "he tried to seduce me."

"I find that hard to believe," Kovu told her.

"You don't believe me Kovu?" she asked.

"I will never believe a Pride Lander," he gruffly said. He watched as Vitani walked back into the cave. He nudged his head to Kiara to tell his sister to watch her while he went out.

Vitani nodded and Kovu walked out of the cave. Vitani looked at Kiara and gave her a haughty smile. "Its just me and you now," she sneered, "I did not appreciate to what you did to my brother."

Kiara didn't want to argue with Vitani. She knew that Vitani was one of the lioness that nobody wanted to mess around with. "I'm sorry," she said to her.

Vitani gave her a look. "That's not enough!" she snapped at Kiara. "We Outlander believe in an ancient code. An eye for an eye. In this case, a scratch for a scratch," she said as she raised her paw and scratched Kiara in the same cheek she had scratched Nuka.

Kiara collapsed to the ground as the pain made her cheek throb. She slowly got up and looked at Vitani. She had received two scratches today, both of them from Vitani.

"That was for my brother," Vitani told her, "guess you are not so pretty anymore are you princess," she said as she walked away from the cave and sat outside, leaving Kiara alone.