A month had passed and Simba ruled well as the new king of the pride lands and everyone was glad to have him back, especially Sarabi who, even though she lost her husband to Scar, was still happy to still have Simba with her. She showed it by still giving him baths. Simba's cries could be heard throughout Pride Rock as he told her she was messing up his mane.

Timon and Pumbaa stayed with Simba, they decided that they could never leave their friend that they spent two years in the jungle with and became advisors as well. They often accompanied Ban'ai on his expeditions and usually got into trouble by annoying other members of the pride lands.

The only person who never seemed to be happy any more was Kamau. He was always quiet and he never wanted to join in on the hunts. He was often seen wandering the savanna alone, and would not come back to Pride Rock until later in the evening. Simba always tried to talk to him, but the young lion never really showed any interest in talking and would go somewhere else to be alone.

One morning, Simba awoke to find Kamau laying at the edge of pride rock, looking very sad, Simba walked over to talk to him.

"Can you tell me what's wrong Kamau, you haven't told me and I want to know," said Simba.

Kamau said nothing and was about to walk away when Simba jumped in front of him.

"Kamau as your king I demand to know what is wrong," said Simba.

Kamau sighed and looked out onto the savanna.

"I just feel like I don't belong here any more, like I need to find another place for myself beyond the horizon," said Kamau sadly.

"Oh, is it because of me or any thing?" asked Simba.

"Oh no I think you are a very good king and everything I just don't think this is the place for me, I feel that I was meant to be here so I can be healed and then move on and become king myself somewhere else," said Kamau.

"So it's none of us, Ban'ai hasn't hurt your feelings in any way?" asked Simba.

"No not at all. It's just that this place also brings back painful memories, I fell in love with Nala but you came back to her, and I witnessed the death of your father. I just want to have cubs of my own and rule a nice parcel of land," said Kamau.

"Well then I'll give you some of my lionesses and give you half the pride lands in return," said Simba.

"No that's quite alright, besides most of the lionesses don't like me," said Kamau.

Simba remained silent, he felt bad for Kamau yet knew that his friend needed his own space to live in and not be bossed around by him.

"But where will you go?" asked Nala who suddenly joined the conversation.

"I think I will head that way," said Kamau who pointed to a spot that was just north of the outlands.

"Well then if that is what you want then I wish you luck on your journey," said Simba.

Kamau sighed and gave Simba a small hug. "Thanks, and good luck ruling the pride lands, and take care of Nala, you found yourself the best female the land can buy," said Kamau.

Nala and Simba smiled as they watched Kamau walk down Pride Rock and head north to a place to call his own. Once he was out of sight, Simba and Nala went over to a nearby tree to relax in the cool shade.

Kamau slowly walked alone through the savanna, he looked back once at Pride Rock and wished that he could rule, but it was Simba's and he did not want to take it away from him. As he walked alone a familiar voice was heard over head.

"Kamau, what's up?" it was Ban'ai.

Kamau looked up at Ban'ai and gave a small smile. "Nothing, what are you doing?" he asked.

"Flying away from Timon and Pumbaa, I scared them so bad they landed in a mud hole," said Ban'ai.

"Well that's not very nice," said Kamau.

Suddenly two forms came walking out of a bush, covered in mud and groaned like a dying wildebeest. Kamau just laughed realizing it was only Timon and Pumbaa.

"Ha ha you two look like hippos," said Kamau.

Timon quickly wiped the mud off his body and yelled at Ban'ai. "Ban'ai when I get my paws on you you're going to be in big trouble," said Timon.

Ban'ai just threw him a raspberry and sat in a nearby tree. Pumbaa walked up to Kamau, noticing his look of wanting to leave.

"So what are you doing out here Kamau?" asked Pumbaa.

"I'm leaving," said Kamau.

Ban'ai stood on his branch in shock before flying down to sit on his shoulder. "What do you mean you are leaving, I was planning on having nice long walks with you through the savanna and try not to make fun of you any more," said Ban'ai.

"I'm sorry but I need to go, I feel like I need to find my own place in the circle of life somewhere else," said Kamau.

The three looked at him sadly before Pumbaa spoke up. "Well I wish you luck on your journey and if you can, you should try to bring Simba's kids together with your kids one day," he said.

"That would be nice, but we will have to wait and see," said Kamau.

"It was nice knowing you then, I hope you live a wonderful life," said Ban'ai.

"You too, now I want all of you to stay out of trouble for King Simba, you hear me, or I will come back and get you," said Kamau.

The three gave a look of innocence before Kamau gave them a big hug. Once he was through saying his goodbyes, Kamau continued on his way.

For about an hour, Kamau wandered the savanna thinking about how he was going to miss his friends but knowing it was for the better. He did not notice the change on scenery until he looked down at his paws and saw that the ground was dead with just rocks and sand.

He was startled by this for a minute until he looked up and was even more startled to find an evil lioness staring at him face to face. He had never met her so he did not know it was Zira, Scar's wife.

"So a pride lander caught off guard" she said angrily

"Oh I am sorry I did not know this was your land, and I am not a pride lander any more, I am leaving to find a new home for myself and I am sorry about invading so I will go now," said Kamau who was about to walk away when Zira leaped in front of him and growled.

"You're not going any where until I am through with you," she said.

"What are you going to do with me? I did not even kill Scar," said Kamau nervously.

"I know you didn't so I'm not going to do anything to you, but you are going to do something for me," said Zira who then suddenly started circling Kamau and flirting with him. Kamau backed away.

"If you think I am going to give you a child you are wrong, there is no way in this world that I am going to make love to you," said Kamau.

"You think so, well if you don't then the hyenas will dispose of you," said Zira who then revealed a group of hyenas behind the lionesses looking very hungry.

"NO!" roared Kamau and ran as fast as he could through the outlands.

"Get him, stop him!" cried Zira.

Kamau ran as fast as he could while lionesses and hyenas gained on him. Once a few hyenas' ran from the top of a large rock and pounced on Kamau one bit him in his sore shoulder causing Kamau to roar in pain while a few others jumped on his back to make him go down, but Kamau kept running.

Kamau knew he did not know his way around the outlands very well and before he could go any farther, he found that he was trapped against a wall; he knew he could not climb up because there were no cracks to hold on to. The only way out was through Zira and her group of lionesses.

"Looks like you're trapped like a rat," said Zira.

"Ha ha ha, that's funny mom," said Nuka who had now joined them.

"Shut up Nuka," said Zira angrily at her son. "Now give me a child or die," said Zira whose teeth were now bared and was looking quite angry.

Kamau looked around at the fierce teeth of lion and hyena and knew that he had no other choice.


A few months went by and the pride lands were in quiet solitude, no wars, no arguments, no deaths, just peacefulness and fun.

It was one morning when Ban'ai was out hunting for worms by himself because Timon and Pumbaa were still sleeping when he saw Rafiki walk past him. Ban'ai jumped up and flew on the old mandrills shoulders.

"Good morning Rafiki, you're up early on this beautiful morning," said Ban'ai.

"I have to be, a child has been born," said Rafiki.

"Really and who is the lucky father and mother?" asked Ban'ai.

"Why you should know that Nala had a child last night," said Rafiki.

"Oh dear I must have been sleeping very heavily last night, I did not even hear a thing, no wonder Simba was not up with me before I left," said Ban'ai.

"Well Mufasa told me it was a very good birth, no trouble at all," said Rafiki.

Ban'ai just smiled, he knew how Rafiki liked to talk to the spirits of ancient kings of the past and lately Mufasa had been keeping him busy.

Back in Pride Rock, Simba stood in front of Nala looking down at the new cub that had been born. It was a little female.

"Oh Nala, she's beautiful," said Simba.

"I'm so happy, I'm a grandmother now," said Sarabi happily.

"So am I," said Sarafina who pushed Sarabi playfully out of the way to see the new arrival.

"So what are you going to name her?" asked Timon who was now excited to have a cub around to teach the ways of Hakuna Matata and how to eat bugs.

"Hmm I think we shall call her Kiara, it sounds so peaceful," said Nala.

"Kiara," said Simba who let the name roll off his tongue. "It's beautiful."

The two then began to nuzzle while everyone in the pride watched. It was not until a few minutes later that Rafiki and Ban'ai showed up ready to see the new arrival.

"I am sorry sah, I did not know a child was born last night, I must have been sleeping very well," said Ban'ai as he looked down at the new cub and smiled at it.

"I know why, because we gave him that bombardier beetle with some rooibus leaves," said Timon silently to Pumbaa. Pumbaa chuckled.

"What was that?" asked Ban'ai who turned to the meerkat and warthog looking quite annoyed.

"Oh nothing" said Timon looking innocent.

"So that's why I cannot remember what happened after our game of catch the beetle last night, you drugged me, oh I'm going to get you two," said Ban'ai.

Timon and Pumbaa screamed and then ran out the cave to get away from Ban'ai, but Ban'ai was hot on their tails.

The pride just laughed at them while Rafiki picked up Kiara to get a good look at her. Kiara then swatted Rafiki's nose with her paw, Rafiki just laughed and turned to Simba and Nala.

"Now let's go introduce the new heir to the pride lands," said Rafiki.

Simba and Nala nodded as they walked out with Rafiki into the morning sunlight to introduce the pride lands to their next ruler.

Well this story is over while a new life begins, but you all are probably wondering what happened to Kamau after he was trapped. Well he did what Zira made him do and as soon as it was over he immediately ran as fast as he could to the north, humiliated by his actions and for betraying the pride landers. He planned on never returning. But what he did not know was that Zira's child would one day fall in love with Simba's daughter. That's right; Kamau is the father of Kovu.

And even though I changed this story around, the story of Kiara and Kovu stay the same. Of course there may be a few changes in dialogue and Ban'ai replaced Zazu but that's about it. I hope you had enjoyed this story.


The longest authors note that I will probably ever have: Well I finally finished this story and you are all probably sad that it is over, or you're glad because now you can move on to the next story that you really want to read today. Any way before I thank everyone I just want to say that this story changed a lot from the beginning. Originally I had planned on having Mufasa send Simba away where he will be safe from harm and end up living with Timon and Pumbaa, Mufasa would check on him often by sending Zazu out to see how he was fairing. But Zazu made a mistake one day and caused a hyena to follow him and find out the location of Simba's whereabouts, I don't remember where it went after that but I think I had plans on killing Timon or someone, can't remember though.

Then the idea of him having amnesia came two or three chapters before and I just thought it would be a cool idea. Kamau came at the last minute too and the idea of Scar getting struck by lighting happened right when I was writing that battle sequence. Truthfully I thought I would get writers block sooner or later, but it never happened.

Well now that I bored you with all that information I bet you all are wondering what my next story will be. Well originally I had planned to go back to the Mulan section and write another story in there but I realized that no one really likes Mushu as the hero so now I am staying in this section and writing about the life of Zazu. Not the way I wrote it but Disney way, from his hatching to his retirement and I would like to ask all of you.

Should I write it from his point of view by him narrating or should it be a non narrative? I am having trouble deciding, so please tell me what I should do. I plan on having it up during the beginning of April; I have lots of schoolwork I need to get done so once I am done with those things I will start on that story.

Now then time to thank all my reviewers, and if I miss any one I apologize.

Bounding Jackalope: Thank you very much for that review, I'm glad you liked the story. What's interesting too is that last week I actually read your Watership Down story but I never reviewed it for some reason, I'll do it the next time you update because its really good so far. Well good luck with your story and thanks again.

Nala5: You were a late bloomer or reviewer whatever you like to call it. I am glad you are happy that Nala and Simba stayed together. I noticed that you have three different stories that are on your list that I need to read, one of course is being the Lion King. I was surprised to see that you are a The Sight fan, great book but the most depressing ending ever; I'll be reading that one soon. And Redwall, I'm glad to see another Redwall fan out there, wrote a few myself. So I will be reading that one as well. Again thanks for the reviews

Sunrise19: Ah my friend that never leaves me, although I am mad that you did not get accepted into Disney College, we would have probably had fun together. I'm glad you liked this story and good luck on your other stories. Oh yeah and you asked if I watched the Zorro series, actually I've only seen the movie and it was quite good. I found out though that Zorro means fox in Spanish and thought it would be the perfect name for my weird muse. Thanks again.

Gohan is MINE not yours: The most unique name I have ever seen on this site. It's alright if you get distracted by anime shows, it happens to me every time Spirited Away and Princess Mononoke come on, those two movies are awesome. And I am sorry your author alert got all wonky, hopefully it won't happen again. Well thanks for all the great reviews.

Doppleganger33: For some reason I keep thinking of Delbert from Treasure Planet when I see your name and I have no idea why. Any way thanks for all the nice comments, hope to see you again.

Kovu's-gurl-1992-12-2004: I'm glad you still had the time to read the story and thank you for all the nice reviews. And I really need to read your stories, I just keep slacking, so look for a review from me in the near future, especially the one from Hidalgo, it sounds like a cool story. Thanks again.

Sulkenwolfpup: Your reviews were extremely witty and funny, they made my day. You also asked how I put everything together so well in the story. Well my answer to you is: truthfully I don't know, it just comes to me. I'm really weird like that. Well good luck on your stories and see you later.

Ninetalesuk: I'm glad you liked this; I hope all your questions have been answered as well. Good luck with your stories too. Hope to see you soon.

Lordwindwalker: Thanks for those reviews and good luck with your Redwall story. I hope you get lots of reviews from that section because I'm sure not, I might get rid of it. Well see you at the Long Patrol Forums.

Hackage Returns: Thanks for the reviews, and I am sorry about punctuation, I tend to, have trouble, with it, sometimes, 0

MGM PyroLion: Thank you for apologizing, not all flamers are like that. And thanks for the info on how Taka might have turned into Scar that was interesting. Well see you around.

Kiara32: Oh where oh where has Kiara32 gone, oh where oh where can she be. Sorry, you just disappeared and I miss your reviews. Any way thanks for all the reviews and good luck with your story, its really good.

Simba11: Your welcome, thanks for the review.

ClearGreenWater: Another reviewer who has been missing still thanks for the reviews. I saw some of your artwork at the lion king fanart section and I wanted to tell you how much I liked your artwork but I have to become a member or something so I will tell you right now that I really like your drawings, they look really good. Any way I hope to see you around sometime. Oh and thanks for the reviews.

Everlasting Oranges: Thanks for reviewing. I now need to read your stories some more now that I found out that you have a character named Kamau too. I only read Simba's back and While Simba Was Away. Any way thanks again.

The Dishwasher: Thanks for the review and I love you Sarabi story you are working on, it's so good. And thank you for wishing me a Merry Christmas. Well see you real soon.

Alibi girl: Hey there my Mulan friend, how is everything going, I have not heard from you in a while. Any way thanks for the reviews, hope to see you soon.

XxSwEeTcHiCaXx: Thanks for the reviews.

Lioness: Thanks for the review

Monai: Thanks for the reviews and as you can see I did add a few characters from The Lion King 2 and 11/2. Thanks again.

Maliicious: Thanks for the review, I hope you finish your Nuka story soon, it's really good. Thanks again.

Lady Mia StarStriker: Thanks little buddy, see you in history class.

Yay I'm done and if I forgot any one I still thank you for the review. Well I will see you all real soon.

Zorro: Wait I want to say something.

Oh great. What is it Zorro.

Zorro: Ban'ai's a spoothead.

Yes thank you very much, now leave. Zorro leaves.

Well thank you again everyone and don't forget to tell me whether or not my Zazu story should be a narrative which is in first person aka Zazu telling the story, or non-narrative written the way this story was written. TTFN: Ta ta for now