Kovu has returned home to be tackled by Kiara crying.
Kovu wraps his paws around her holding her until he heard a purring sound and ask "Kiara? Kiara, you awake?"
Kovu moves her head to see she fell asleep laying on him.
He licked her cheek and said "good night, Kiara."
He pulled himself over to the side of the royal den to sleep.
Simba came back to see Nala laying down and ask "where's Kiara?"
Nala stared at the two cubs in the corner.
Simba follow her gaze to Kiara laying on a lion cub to realize it's Kovu.
Simba walked over to them.
Kovu opened his eyes to see Simba stare at him and says "Simba don't be mad at this."
Simba ask "why would I be mad about this?"
Kovu answered "the way she's sleeping on me."
Simba looks at Kiara and says "Kovu, we all thought you died after charging at Gavin forcing you both into the gorge. So she probably will not get up for awhile from laying on you. You've been gone for six days."
Kovu ask "your gonna let her lay on me like this?"
Simba looks at him and smiles "yes, plus when she starts shaking and lashing out you can hold her and kiss her to calm her down."
Kovu says "thank you-Wait Kiara has nightmares?!"
Simba walks over to where Nala is, to sleep.
Kovu closes his eyes to sleep.
Kiara starts saying "Kovu, come back to me" shedding tears.
Kovu wakes up to Kiara sobbing on his chest and tightens his grip around her saying "I'm here, Kiara" nuzzling her head.
Kiara calms down a little to the feel of being nuzzled.
A couple of minutes later, Kiara starts whispering "Kovu, why did you leave me like this?"
Kovu moves her head to look at her face and kisses her muzzle with passion.
Kiara opens her eyes to see Kovu kissing her.
After kissing Kiara, he smiles at him in a 'in love' look.
Kovu whipers to her "no more nightmares for tonight?"
Kiara gets off and lays beside him and puts his paw around her.
Kovu puts his head beside hers and goes to sleep.
Morning came, Kovu got up and walked out of the royal den after a ruff night.
Simba came up from behind him and ask "how did you sleep?"
Kovu answered "not good enough. Kiara kept me up most of the night."
Simba answers "I figured she would of."
Kovu ask "will she be having any more nightmares?"
Simba answers "I don't know right now."
Kiara woke up to see Kovu gone and starts sobbing lightly "Kovu left me again."
Nala woke up to Kiara crying and ask "Kiara what's wrong?"
Kiara sobs "Kovu left me again."
Nala tells her "let me go see where he went."
Nala stepped outside to see Kovu talking to Simba and ask "ah hmm" getting their attention "excuse me for interrupting your conversation, but Kovu, Kiara is asking for you inside."
Kovu sighs and ask "Simba how do I get her to stop this thinking I'm leaving for good."
Simba looks at Nala who tilts her head at him.
Simba says "Kiara is going through what lions call loneliness lion widow."
Kovu ask "what's that?"
Simba lowers his head and whispers in his ear explaining what it is.
Afterwards, Kovu exclaimed "Kiara believes that we're married and I left her as a widow?!"
He ask "how do I stop it?"
Simba says "you have to take it slowly with her."
Kovu walks in the royal den to see Kiara sobbing.
He walks over to her and lays down and nuzzles Kiara causing her to purr.
Kiara pleads "Kovu, don't leave me alone again."
Kovu licks her cheek causing her to purr.
He ask "let's go play at the watering hole."
Kiara follows Kovu outside to see Simba sitting next to Nala.
Simba smirks "you got her to come out of the royal den."
Kovu nods his head "yes."
Kiara follow Kovu to the watering hole to see Kion and the lion guard.
Kion smiled to see his sister come out of the royal den.
He ask "Kovu, you got Kiara to come out of the royal den?"
Kovu answered "yes, I got her to come out. Did you get back together with Rani?"
Kion looks at Rani who looks at him and nuzzles him putting her head under his chin and replies "yes, I told her I would take her back because I love her too much to let her go. Even if she leaves I would still follow her."
Kion ask "Kovu, what happen that day when I took your sister and family to see my dad?"
Kovu explains to Kion from walking to the top of Pride Rock to the caven in the ground to the gorge to floating down river to meeting Mufasa which was a shock to me.
Kion ask "you died?"
Kovu lowers his head and says "partly, yes, I was in limbo meaning I had the choice to come back or pass on."
Kiara started crying quietly at Kovu dying.
Fuli ask "what made you return?"
Kovu answered "I saw what was happening to the pride due to me dying."
Kion ask "what did you see?"
Kovu sighed and said "I saw how Kiara never left the royal den unless Tiifu and Zuri begged her to come play with them.
Rani felt guilty for my death, so she broke up with you because of failing Kiara and you let her go. This pride needed me to keep it together."
That night Kovu visit his sister and the lioness.
Vitani welcome her brother back.
Kovu ask "how's everyone doing?"
Vitani answered "good, but I miss mom."
Kovu lowered his head remembering her.
Vitani looks at her brother and nuzzles him.
Kiara walks into the cave to see Kovu nuzzling another lioness and snarls "Kovu, what are you doing nuzzling this lioness?"
Kovu forgot to tell her he had a brother and sister.
Kiara walks up slowly to them gritting her teeth.
Kovu steps in front of her and says "Kiara, this is my sister."
Kiara stares at him for a minute thinking about it before asking "she's your what?"
Kovu tells her "she's my twin sister. Kiara this Vitani, Vitani this Kiara."
Vitani stares wide eye and says "Kovu she's more prettier than what our mom described her as."
Kiara blushed at her comment.
Vitani smirks "no wonder you left us to be with her."
Vitani and Kiara talked for a while until it was sunset and Kiara left.
Kovu left to see how Kion is doing?
Kiara walked into the royal den to sleep to see Kovu still gone.
Kiara ask her mom "where is Kovu?"
Nala tells her "I don't know."
Simba walks into the royal den.
Kiara ask her dad "where is Kovu?"
Simba answers "I don't know."
Kiara went to her spot and laid down.
Kovu and Kion talked about Kiara's problems through his supposedly death.
Kion told him "she cried herself to sleep and during the day she would play with Zuri and Tiifu or join us on guard duty, but mostly she would stay in the royal den and sleep."
Kovu looks at the stars.
Kion ask "Kovu?"
Kovu looked at him.
Kion tells him "if you didn't come back, my sister would give up on life."
Kovu says "yes, I know, I seen how much she needed me."
They both look up at the stars.
Kion tells him "you should go now because Kiara is gonna go crazy if your not back now."
Kovu leaves to head back to the royal den.
Kiara was pacing back and forth around her and Kovu's spot.
Nala opens her eyes to see Kiara walking around the royal den and says "Kiara, he will come back from what he's doing?"
Kiara replies "mom, he left and didn't tell me where he went" with tears in her eyes.
Nala tells her "he probably went to visit Kion."
Kiara comes over to her mom and nuzzles her as she puts her arm around her.
Kovu walks into the royal den to see everyone in the royan den sleeping except Kiara and Nala.
He walks over to them and whispers "Nala, would you like me to take over so you can sleep?"
Kiara looks up to see Kovu and tackles him to the ground.
Kovu looks at her and wipes her tears away with his paw.
Kiara lays on his paw as he wraps his other paw around her holding her in a protective embrace letting sleep take over both of them.
Next morning, everyone got up to see how Kovu was holding Kiara sleeping.
Nala ask "Simba "should we wake them up?"
Simba shakes his head "no, let them sleep, besides I think I hear her purring in her sleep."
Noon came and Kiara yawn to softly waking up to notice Kovu holding her in an embrace sleeping and nudges his cheek to wake him up.
Kovu mumbles "stop, Kiara."
Kiara starts licking his cheek repeatedly waking him up.
Kovu ask "what time is it?"
Kiara answers "I would say it's noon."
Kovu says "well noon cubby love time."
Kiara ask "what's that?"
Kovu starts licking her cheek while Kiara giggles at Kovu returning the favor.
Nala walks in on them and ask "uh maybe I should come back later."
Kiara ask her mom "can you tell a story of you and dad"s days of your cub years?"
