Disclaimer: Oh, how I hate admitting that I was not the one clever enough to invent this awesome story and that it does not belong to me-only the incredibly smart people of Disney. Heavy sigh! Oh well, what are you going to do?


The Lion King III
Chapter 2 Hakuna Matata

Simba sent Timon and Pumbaa for a well deserved nap and then a day of relaxation with Kiara and Kovu. He paced around for several minutes and snarled a little more. After Timon, Pumbaa, Kiara, and Kovu left, Nala joined her husband as he walked back and forth.

"Honey? What's wrong?" she said gently as Simba barely acknowledged her. "Let's go for a walk, okay? It'll be good for you." Slowly Simba followed his queen. They walked all through the Pride Lands as Nala followed dutifully. Unlike her usual self, she did not pester Simba as they walked. She could see that he was still deep in thought. As they were walking she remembered a particular instance when she and Simba were just little cubs. The flashback of Simba's great idea to visit an elephant graveyard was too much for her to keep all to herself. She knew that Simba was still deep in thought and as the king he was probably worrying about the safety of his pride, but she just hated seeing him so tense.

Nala quickly ran at Simba and pounced on top of him, his back pinned to the grass. "Pinned ya!" she said to his bewildered face that was then quickly overcome with realization of what Nala was doing. Pushing her off of him and wanting to play along he got back up and ran after her forgetting about his problems. The two of them pranced along a bit longer until Nala managed to land once more on top of him. "Pinned ya again!" she said with even more emphasis. The two lions burst into laughter as they both got up and nuzzled one another. They walked side by side, much as in love as the day they were married.

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Meanwhile, Kiara and Kovu were giving Timon and Pumbaa trouble of their own. Simba's idea of giving the dynamic duo a nice, relaxing day with his daughter and possible, future son-in-law was obviously not even close to theirs. Although it was true that the foursome had went to Upendi, Kiara and Kovu would not give up trying to figure out what Simba had sent them to do. Not surprisingly, Timon and Pumbaa were trying their best to distract the two lions from their own mission.

"We were searching for new grub spots. See kid," Timon started talking to Nala as if she were still a cub, smaller than Timon. "Your dad, he's got this crazy idea that you lions should start eating like us!" he said as Pumbaa started to chant: "Grubs, grubs, grubs, grubs. Grubs, grubs, grubs, grubs. Charge!"

"Whoa! Take it easy there, Pumbaa, buddy" replied Timon as he himself started to sing his own rendition of In Upendi.

"Wheeeree the meercats sing

And the Pumbaas swing

From the branches beyond the wa-ay!

Aannd the Nala says that she knows the way,

While the Kovu just wants to pla-ay! C'mon Everyone!"

He yelled as only Timon could and actually get everyone to join in- "In Upendi!" they all shouted as they pranced through the grasslands. The sun was just setting and Timon and Pumbaa wanted to look at the stars with the two restless lions. Soon enough, Kovu was no longer able to contain himself. He thought he could trick the partners in crime, but Timon and Pumbaa were on there guard, therefore, they were successfully able to avoid telling Kiara and Kovu what they had been up to.

"Aw-C'mon, Timon! You know you want to tell us." pried Kovu as Kiara worked on Pumbaa. Just as Pumbaa was about to cave in, however, Timon distracted him.

"Okay, okay-we'll tell you!" said Timon in a menacing voice.

"We will?" Pumbaa replied in his deep, gruff, warthog voice that sounded as if he truly believed Timon.

"Sure! When we're at the top of the food chain! Ha! The food chain! Get it?" he said as he cracked up at his own joke, while the other three stared blankly at him. "Ahem!" he said once he realized that his joke had flopped. "No worries-Hakuna Matata!"

Kovu, on the other hand, was not impressed by Timon's little gesture. He was getting very frustrated that he could not figure out what they had done. Without thinking he opened his mouth and let out an earsplitting roar. Turning around, Timon was about to crack another joke, but before he could, Kovu's rather large teeth were closing in around Timon. All the meercat could do was scream as he was being swallowed alive.


A/N: Well first I'd like to thank everyone for their reviews...This chapter isn't exactly necessary, but I wanted to put it in for some drama and reminiscing...I'm working on the next chapter, so I hope I can update that soon...I hope you are enjoying it so far and please R&R since it is always nice to have some feedback. Also, I realized that any users who had not been signed in couldn't review, so I changed it so that you can if you want to. Sorry. Anyways, please R&R and hopefully I'll be updating soon.

Btw, If you are into Pirates of the Caribbean, my good friend Julia is writing a fanfic for it: her pn name is JBT and her story is titled The Young and Hopeless...I know she's been wanting some more feedback from that, so by all means you should check it out.