Yet another beautiful morning came in the Pride Lands, and Simba was the first to wake up from his sleep, then Nala, then Kiara, then Kovu, then the other lions in the den. Kion and Vitani were apparently still asleep, probably because Vitani can be very lazy and Kion was probably a little exhausted from another patrol over the Pride Lands again. Still, the cub was the next one to get up and stretch his legs on yet another fine day in his home. Vitani was still fast asleep, snoring loudly and snoozing so soundly, and it was no surprise that she was the last one to still be sleepy on this morning, as a matter of fact, she didn't really like to be awoken from her sleep at all, not even by Kovu.

The future king smirked and gently tapped his sister on her right side. "Hey," he whispered to her. "Vitani, wake up."

Sighing and mumbling, Vitani turned to her other side. "Not now, mother. Ten more minutes and I'll hunt some more." Kovu looked annoyed, but an idea came in his head

With a sly and playful smirk, he shouted: "Kudu!"

That word made Vitani spring up to her feet, looking like she was going to kill this imaginary kudu and eat it for breakfast. "Where? Where?" She looked around left and right, but she realized that her younger brother tricked him.

Kovu began laughing at how gullible she was with that trick. "Gotcha! I can't believe you still fall for that." And he was guffawing on the Rocky ground.

Vitani, not amused by this at all, was growling and scowled at Kovu for doing this prank again. "Grr! I hate it when you do this to me."

"Sorry, sis." Kovu said with a smirk. "But you wouldn't get up." Then he let out a yawn. "Well, I'm gonna go hunt."

"Same. I can really go for some Kudu now." Vitani agreed. She and her brother went out of Pride Rock and they went to the savanna to hunt for food. Simba and Nala went with Zazu with another morning report as usual, and Kion was alone with Kiara in Pride Rock.

"You up for some patrolling?" Asked Kiara. "You always go out to patrol the Pride Lands every day, Kion."

"Normally, but the Pride Lands have been very peaceful over the last few days. No trouble, no Janja and his clan, no Reirei and her family, no Makucha, very peaceful."

"No argument." Kiara agreed flatly.

"Besides, I'm still trying to wake up a little more." He let out an adorable yawn. "And besides, I'm hungry, too."

Kiara's stomach was rumbling. "I'm really hungry. I can just eat a whole elephant right now." Her stomach just continued rumbling like crazy as if it was getting really angry for no reason. "Wanna come hunting with me?"

"Sure." The siblings went out into the Savanna to hunt for some meat to fill their stomachs for breakfast. In the fields, they were hunting with Kovu and Vitani together as a group of four. Over the course of time, they were doing so good, although, Kion was struggling a little bit because of his small size when he sees a gigantic oryx for him to eat.

If he was as big as his adult family members, he would easily bite down on the antelope's neck and he would have suffocated within seconds, but alas, his teeth were still too small to be powerful enough to do a bite kill like that.

Kion felt himself thrown off by the oryx after trying to vite down on his neck, and crashed with a loud thud. He could use the Roar of the Elders against his prey, but he only uses it for good and using it on other helpless animals would be considered evil.

Doing that would make Kion stoop to Scar's level. Panting from the impact, he felt a little sore Fter falling hard on the soil. "Ow." He moaned.

As the oryx got away, Kiara and Kovu rushed to his aid. "You okay, Kion?" Asked Kovu

"Are you injured?"

"No. Ah!" Kion gasped. "I've suffered worse pain than this."

"Are you sure you're okay?" Asked Kiara. "I can get mom and dad for you."

"I'm sure I'm okay" Kion replied. "But I'm just going to wait a while longer before I catch and oryx as food."

"Good idea. With your size," said Vitani, "you're way too puny to catch that kind of beast." She then ruffed his small mane on top of his head playfully.

While she was having fun teasing him as usual, Kion was not having the funnest time since he is being picked on by Vitani, but, alas; the cub was absolutely used to this kind of treatment from her. "Very funny." He rolled his eyes away from the tomboy lioness. "Some help you are to me."

Vitani immediately got offended by that. "Hey! I can come around if needed. Need I remind you that I watched your little butt at home while your parents, sister, and my brother were gone for a day?"

Young Kion was about to argue with a big breath, but he sighed in defeat "Point well made.", he admitted.

"Hmm, well, not that I knew you would fail, but you can have some of my sable antelope I found and killed." Kiara offered him. She went over and pulled a nice, juicy, gigantic sable antelope corpse over, and she already at some of it in the west side of it's body, and four of it's ribs were showing already.

"Ooh. This is a nice kill you got there, sweetheart." said Kovu. "just like i taught you about hunting."

Kiara flushed at her mate's compliment. "Thanks, Kovu."

"I had a paw in this too, you know?" Vitani reminded.

"Well anyway, you can have some my kill." Kiara said to her younger brother, offering the most to him.

Kion smiled gratefully to her. "Thanks Kiara.", he said before digging himself in to the sable antelope meat. After everyone had gotten their breakfast this morning, they were heading back to Pride Rock, and Kiara got a little idea.

It was something secret that she was hiding for a long time and she didn't want to share this secret with anyone she knew or love, but, since she loves Kion so much and she didn't like seeing her own brother getting hurt, she decided to make an exception. It was something only she and Kovu know about and Kiara knew it wouldn't kill her to show it to her little brother.

"Say, Kion, I know something fun we can do together." said Kiara.

Kion looked back at her and asked: "what's that?"

"It's something I know you'll love. But, it's a secret."

"What kind of secret is- oh, you mean..." Kovu suddenly realised what she was talking about.

"Oh yes."

"What secret?" asked Vitani.

"Sorry sis, but we can't tell you."

The tomboy just gave a blank look on her face. "Whatever." she said before going into the rock to take another nap.

"Come on. I'll show you Kion."

"What about mom and dad?"

"They won't mind." His big sister said boldly.

"I wish I can come with you. But I'm a little stuffed from eating that buffalo a few minutes ago." Said Kovu. "But, let me know if you want me to come over to... this place."

"OK, Kovu. We'll let you know."

Then Kiara and Kion went off to a rather long walk away from Pride Rock, and there was a small jungle with dense trees and and vines. It was a place similar to Timon and Pumbaa's home, but it was a little more greener.

"How much farther?"

"Just right in front of us." She moved a line of vines and leaves aside and there was a wide, misty hot spring that looked large and it looked like some kind of tub. Kion looked absolutely awestruck by this hot spring and he never even seen something like this before.