Chapter 25
Kion's point of view
I didn't really sleep last night cause I felt it was my duty to keep an eye on Kovu, I'm gonna be honest I don't trust the outsider and I definitely don't want him near my sister, but anyways dad and Kovu were supposed to meet inside the den, so Kiara and I got up from our spots to leave but Kopa remained seated with his typical entitled attitude of course dad would let allow his precious heir to stay, I simply roll my eyes and walk out with us in silence and yes I'm still mad at him and on top of that the lack of sleep is making me incredibly grumpy but whatever.
"I hope the meeting goes well" Kiara said as we walked I raise an eyebrow at her as she says this and continues with a nervous laugh "you know so there can be peace between our prides"
"Since when do you care about diplomatic affairs" I snort, I can see right through you sis
"I've always cared" she shrugged
"Yeah right, all you care about is seeing your boyfriend again" I smirk
"He's not my boyfriend!" she snaps
"You're right he's not and he never will because dad would never allow it" I laugh
"What?" Kiara scoffs "if I wanted to date Kovu, and I'm not saying I do- but if I did dad would totally let me"
"No, he wouldn't" I argue
"Yes he would" she argued back
"No, he wouldn't"
"Kovu is a great guy, he's smart, brave, responsible, a complete gentlemen and-" she ranted
"You've known him for less than 24 hours you can't possibly know that!" I say, kings above this girl really needs to get it together, she glared at me with her fiery red eyes
"Whatever, you're just jealous of him" she snapped "and I feel sorry for you"wow talk about delusional
Then I saw something that truly made my day, Kopa walking out of the den looking pretty pissed oh poor thing you're about to feel even worse
"Looks like someone got kicked out of the meeting!" I laughed loudly, he glared at me and continued walking past us
"What's with the Grump?" Kiara asked when he compleatly ignored us
"He's just mad because Vitani broke up with him, we had a fight and now dad kicked him out of the meeting" I replied
"Vitani broke up him?" she asked surprised
"Well, she didn't break up with him, she's just mad" I explained
"When is she not?" Kiara scoffed, that's just what I said yesterday at least there's one thing Kiara and I share, our growing hate for Vitani "what happened this time?" she asked
"He promised we would spend the day together yesterday but then we had to- um…go do something" I tried fixing my little slip up to no use
"You had to go spying on me during my hunt" Kiara snapped "yeah I saw you guys, you suck at hiding"
"And you suck at doing what dad tell you" I retorted "that's why he sent us, he knew you would so something stupid and you didn't disappoint" she simply rolled her eyes "bringing that outsider is on your top ten dumb moments"
"He's not just any outsider, he's a king" she sneered
"Still not the brightest move Kiara" I added
"Whatever" she brushed off my comment "what did you two argued about this time?"
"Same as always" I shrug "he's always trying to boss me around"
"If you two keep having the same argument by the time he becomes king and you become leader of the guard the Pridelands are doomed" she sighs "unless one of you gives in" Kopa might be the future king but I'm a better leader and will not allow him to boss me around.
"It will not be me" I say determined
Simba's point of view
The meeting with Kovu was over and it went well I can see the relationship between our prides improving later on but right it was time for him to leave but not without saying goodbye to my daughter first and I kept a watchful eye on their interaction, this kid better not push it I might have agreed to meet with him but that doesn't mean I want him getting too close to Kiara.
"It was great seeing you again" Kovu told my daughter with a smile
"You're leaving already?" she asked
"Yes, but I'll come back soon" the green eyed lion tells her, we still had some things to go over but they will be done soon hopefully "but right now my pride must be worried specially my m-"
"Mate?" I ask raisin an eyebrow at him
"No! No, I don't have one of those" he laughs nervously "I was going to say my mother, I swear"
"Right…" I say and Kiara gives me a 'dad you're embarrassing me' look
"Kiara, I would like to thank you for your help" he spoke and she smiled at him
"I should be the one thanking you" she answered looking up at him he smiled and it was like their eyes were glued to each other's, I am not having this, time to step in
"Okay that's enough thanking for today" I say rather loudly and scaring the two "good bye Kovu!"
"Uh- um goodbye king Simba!" He turns and bows his head at me "bye Kiara" he glances at her one last time before disappearing into the distance
"You scared him!" my daughter exclaimed
"I don't like the way you two look at each other" I say and she rolled her eyes at me
"It's just looking daddy" she says getting up, yeah just looking when I was a teen looking always led to something else "I gotta go before I miss the hunt"
"Princess" I say and she stops to look at me "No more hunts outside the borders for you. Not ever, understood?"
"As long as you don't send someone to spy on me…" she mutters
"Don't push it Kiara, I could change it to 'no hunts for you, at all' " I say calmly but sternly
She closed her eyes sighed "yes father"
"Now, go before they leave without you" I nuzzled her before going in oposite directions.
My favorite time of the day is the afternoon right before the sun sets when I get to go home and spend time with my family but sometimes when I get home things are not as peaceful as I expect them to be and I've noticed a patron lately when Kiara, Kion and Kopa are together fights, bickering and arguments erupt and seems like that's what I'm going to find today, I could hear Nala asking with an urgent voice "what happened?!" I followed her voice and saw Kion ono the floor rubbing his head, Kiara and Kopa with their ears pinned down.
Nala sighed exasperated when no one answered so I stepped in and asked again "what happened?" The cubs turned to me with wide eyes and then studied each other's faces
"Kion and Kopa were fighting again!" Kiara blurted out
"Kion started it!" Kopa accused
"I did not!" Kion contradicted getting up from the ground
"You started the argument and then attacked me!" Kopa said
"I'm the one that's hurt here!" Kion yelled signaling to his head
"You did that to yourself!" Kiara chimed in "he was going to use the roar on us"
"What? Kion-" I asked shocked
"That's not true Kiara is lying, she always lies to you guys" Kion argued
"I'm not a liar!" Kiara snapped
"Yes you are" Kopa rolled his eyes "like today you crossed the border again to go look for Kovu because she likes him"
"What?! Kiara-" I boomed
"Kopa has a girlfriend!" she announced "And he told us to lie if you guys ever asked us about it"
"No I didn't!" Kopa yelled
"Yes you did" Kion blabbed
"And Kion has two girlfriends!" Kopa claimed "He can't decide whether he likes Rani or Sita"
"That's not true!" Kion snorts
"It is I saw him with both of them" Kiara said and the accusations continued flying but I wasn't even listening anymore whatever happened I could tell the three of them were to blame and now they were just trying to sink each other down sibling rivalry to the max, at times like this I'm grateful to be an only child
"That's enough!" Nala scolded and the yelling stopped "it's like three months old all over again, talking over each other, yelling, fighting-"
"Mamma…" Kion interrupted looking at the paw he had been holding his head with "my head is bleeding" he said showing his bloodstained paw
Nala gasped and went to get Rafiki. I sat watching the three glaring at each other, I swear it's like the argument between them continued through some kind of triplet telepathy. When Kion started waving his bloody paw in his siblings face, they swat it away and another physical fight was about to begin "Stop it" I boomed "The three of you ask to be treated as adults but when you act like this! I've had enough of your cub like behavior" I say with a stern tone, when they were younger we thought that the fighting would eventually stop but it seems to be getting worse the older they get, sibling rivalry never ended well in my family's history I will not have my children damage their relationship to that point.
Nala was back with Rafiki rather quickly to examine and heal Kion; it was nothing serious just a superficial wound, after that the scurried away from the scene while we talked to Rafiki and went to the den where the three of them pretended to be three well behaved angels. Nala and I stayed outside discussing what happened today
"How many weeks is it going to be now?" she asked
"Grounding them it's pointless" I sigh
"Now you know how your father felt" she said flatly
Something went off in my head when she said this it gave me a brilliant idea, something that would put those three in the right path and after discussing it with Nala, we decided to inform Kiara, Kion and Kopa
"You're banishing us!?" they exclaimed shocked.
-AN-
more to come soon!
-ali