Chapter 8

The day was still, Mowgli was very for he didn't have enough sleep from last night, he was relaxing on a hot rock underneath the small, shiny sun but part of shadows from a tree covering his face do the sun doesn't brighten his eyes. He was with Baloo as the big, brown bear was relaxing too but on the soft, green grass. Baloo's face looked so comfortable and sleepy from teaching his lessons to the young wolf-cubs earlier, compare to Mowgli was the same but his face did look a bit troubled with his eyes were either open or closed. Soon, Baloo did a huge stretched from his legs out wide and long, while making a huge yawn which was the beginning of his awaking. Mowgli turned around slowing from hearing Baloo's loud yawning, watching Baloo trying to roll side-ways to get himself up.

"What could be more perfect than this moment?" Baloo asked himself as he rolled to his right side.

Mowgli smiled at Baloo's peaceful moment then he looked down in worriedness, he asked, "Hey Baloo, can I ask you something?"

Baloo raised up a bit, "Sure kid."

"How did you feel when you came here?" Mowgli asked his question.

"Well, very pleased, not saying that I don't like the wolf-cubs, but you know how much I love to relax."

Baloo answered was meant by here now, that wasn't what Mowgli was looking for, he asked again, "I mean by when you first came to stay at Council Rock, did you by any chance missed you home, at the north?"

Baloo paused to think about this question, and came out for his answer, "Well, yeah I would have missed it, but you know what, the best thing was that I first met you." Mowgli grew a smile on his face as Baloo continued, "I never knew anything new around the jungle, journeying around the jungle, you keep creating your new tricks. That what's you happy, so that's make me happy, beside food and sleeping. Rather than going somewhere new alone, I rather stick to the ones I can get my paws on. And that, man-cub, is the bare necessities of life."

Baloo quickly changed back to sleeping mood, as his eyes starting to close down for another rest. Mowgli quickly asked another question, "Oh and Baloo, say like the bees were leaving this part of the jungle forever, so you probably won't get the honey again, what would you do?"

Baloo wasn't quite listening to that question, but he just spoke out his answer from the top of his head, "Ah, I'll just try to convince them to stay."

Mowgli rested back on his back and began thinking what Baloo just said answered, Mowgli tried to compare that to the thought of Kitty staying at England forever. Mowgli was thinking of convince her to stay by the jungle, or maybe talk about it, he just wants to have the feeling of losing her or never seeing her again. He sat up with his back straight next to get on his feet, Mowgli decided to meet up with Kitty and just talk with her. Without distracting Baloo's sleeping or telling him, Mowgli left and was walking back to the village.

The long branches from the tall, jungle trees were waving like they were saying hello, Mowgli noticed them and a few small birds flying in the air and swirling around the branches. Hearing rushing jumps coming from behind the green bushes, Mowgli thought that it could some bird just picking up some bugs for lunch, however he was wrong. The creature jumped out without giving Mowgli a shock but a surprised, seeing a tiring mongoose.

"Rikki|?" Mowgli asked.

"Mowgli, I got something to tell you" Rikki answered while breathing hard.

"Not now Rikki, can it wait?" Mowgli continued walking, "I'm looking for Kitty."

"But Kitty was looking for you, in the jungle" Rikki replied.

"Oh, thanks Rikki" Mowgli said, he turns around and decided to go to see if Kitty is at Council Rock.

"No, no, wait!" Rikki tried to say something, he tried to jump up quick on every step Mowgli takes, "It is very, very important!"

Rikki started to slow down a bit to catch up for some breathing in, while Mowgli was still walking faster towards Council Rock. He made it and silence was the only welcome he first got, he scanned around the area and saw no one around.

"Where is everyone?" Mowgli asked himself.

Mowgli quickly noticed that a strange object was lying down by the side near his home cave. Mowgli walked over towards it then he soon noticed it's full identity was a travelling bag, it was Kitty's from what he could remember by the looks of it. Rikki finally reached up to Mowgli and they both wondered the question; why is Kitty's bag left here?

Behind Mowgli were beating steps of three running wolves, while hearing their breathing loud and hard. Mowgli looked behind as quick as he could and saw the wolves running up towards him, he smiled at their arrival. Grey arrived first, then Akru the third brother, and finally Sura the eledest.

"It's nice to see you back in a while" Akru started.

"I've been busy" Mowgli replied, "Have you seen Kitty around?"

"Oh yeah, she, ami, and Bagheera just walk down to see the cubs, and I think Baloo could be with them" Sura answered.

"Yeah, Kitty said she needed to talk about something serious" Grey commented.

Mowgli raised an eye-brown, he asked, "About what?"

"Don't know" Grey answered.

"Maybe there's something in this bag" Rikki suggested as he jumped inside the bag.

"Rikki get out" Mowgli ordered, he lifted the bag and decided to carry it as they walk along to meet up with the others, "I bring the bag back to her."

Rikki started to search around the bag, in every inside pocket, every object; a pair of green sport sun-glasses with an organ cover, yellow cover lip balm, her small blue cover, then finally a letter. Rikki couldn't read or understand the human language, but he can smell something bad and trouble about this letter.

"Hey, man-cub!" Rikki shouted from inside the bag, "I think you want to see this!"

"What is it?" Mowgli replied.

"It's about you!" Rikki shouted back.

Suddenly Mowgli stopped which made his tree wolf brothers stopped beside him, Mowgli slowly dropped the bag down to the ground. Rikki jumped out of the bag, then Mowgli open the bag, looked inside and spotted the letter. He carefully picked up the letter from the inside of the bag, but he stopped and just stare at the back of it.

Rikki and the wolf brothers looked at each other wondering, "What is Mowgli doing?"

"Go on, what is it?" Grey asked.

"I don't think we should" Mowgli answered.

"Well, if they are actually going to be you about this serious business thing, then it won't hurt if you just look at it first to know what it is" Akru convinced Mowgli.

"He's quite of right, and he's usually the crazy brother of the family" Sura commented.

"Thank you" Akru positively replied back to Sura.

Mowgli took a second of what they were saying, and he soon agreed, he opened the letter and first thing he read on the top of the letter was a surprised shocked.

"Buldeo?" Mowgli read out and asked himself.

"What does that man have anything to do with this?" Grey asked as he walked over to Mowgli and sniffed the letter.

Mowgli continued reading the letter, he didn't fully know all the words from man's language but most he understood. Mowgli got the middle which said something about "matching DNA," then something about Mowgli. Reading deeper and deeper like swimming deep down a dark, water pool where you could only see the gloomy darkness. Closer to the end, a personal text from someone saying to Buldeo, something about a "will" and a quote saying, "belongs to your brother." Mowgli's eyes looked very troubled as the ending released the true message from the letter, then his face transformed to the greatest shock of his life.

"He's my uncle?!" Mowgli asked loudly.

"He's your what?!" the wolf brothers asked loudly too.

"H-how" Mowgli asked.

"I thought so" Rikki said to himself, but it wasn't quite enough.

"What?! You knew?!" Mowgli asked Rikki angrily, thinking that Rikki had kept this secret all this time.

"Well, I… I… I did sniff out some of the same scent from you and him, but I swear on a python life I've never about this" Rikki clearly explained.

"Oh, good luck with that" Akru giggled a little, "You got a new family member who really, really hates you." Everyone turned their heads and faced disapprovingly at Akru which made him very quiet.

Sura suddenly picked up both of his ears because he just picked up some sounds down path. He said, "Hey I think the other are not far from here, shall we continue?"

The wolf brothers nodded as they prepared for another race, however Mowgli didn't answer as his face looked sadly worried. Sura and Akru understood that Mowgli needed some space and time to think it through, they all left except Grey stopped and looked back at his brother with the feeling compassion, then he continued running with his other wolf brothers. Rikki decided to stay behind in case Mowgli might need to have a small talk.

Mowgli still couldn't believe from what he just read, he has an uncle, but two questions appeared in his mind; why didn't Buldeo tell him, and why didn't the others?

Sura, Akru and Grey arrived down at the steep path while still feeling compassion for their brother, Mowgli. Then, they spotted Baloo eating some juicy berries, with Bagheera laying down beside him, they were sitting behind some trees with big bushes fitted in between the gaps on a small cliff. Bagheera spotted the wolf brothers rushed in the speed of the wind down to towards them, however he couldn't see Mowgli.

The wolf brothers arrived, then Bagheera asked, "Where is Mowgli?"

"He had to stopped for something" Sura answered, next he asked, "Where is ami and Kitty?"

"Raksha has gone to talk to the adult wolves about their next hunt" Bagheera answered, "And Kitty and Luri just walking back to get her bag."

"No, no, Mowgli got it" Grey commented.

Bagheera's face went down and looked worried, "He didn't look anything inside the bag, did he?"

The wolf brothers looked at each other with the anxious feeling because they didn't know how to answer.

At the same time, Sura answered, "Yes" but Akru answer, "No" then Grey answered, "Well."

Bagheera was confused but suspicious about what they all meant from their answers. Grey tried to fully explain, "Well, he did look, but he didn't see, he saw somethings, but he didn't see what-so-ever what was inside."

"He saw thing, but he didn't see" Bagheera replied from Grey explained, "That doesn't make any scene."

"I thought that it was perfectly clear to me" Baloo commented, even though he didn't hear much of it but was distracted from eating the berries.

"But, what's in there that Mowgli mustn't see?" Grey asked.

"Nothing, Grey" Bagheera calmly asked.

"So, nothing about that cruel man from the village?" Akru asked.

"Well he is involved…" Bagheera was about to fully answer, till he noticed something from that question, he then asked, "What makes you think it's about that Buldeo?"

Akru and the other wolf brothers just realised what Akru asked before, they all slowly lowered their heads shamefully. Bagheera walked up to them and looked down on them with powerfully stare, his face was hard and deadly serious.

"Where is he?" Bagheera asked.

Mowgli was still staring at the letter in a shock and depress, his angrily hands were gripping tight on the edge of the letter. Rikki stare at the deeply shock expression on his face, as he waited to for Mowgli to say something first.

"So, everyone knew, and they never told me?" Mowgli asked himself.

"Well, it's like they want to hide it from you, maybe it was hard to explain it to" Rikki tried to answer in a way that could calm Mowgli down a little.

"Yeah, I get it" Mowgli stood with a ranging tone, "They never told me these things because I'm still a cub, that I'm still don't understand things. Well, guess what, I do!"

Unknowing to Mowgli and Rikki, that behind some trees and bushes Kitty and Luri, the second oldest wolf cub of the family, they were out walking while looking for Kitty's bag.

"I swear I just left it by the cave" Kitty said.

"Maybe Mowgli and the others could have picked it up" Luri suggested, 2We could split up just around here?"

"That's a good idea" Kitty commented.

"I know, I always do to my brothers, even if they never asked for it."

Kitty and Luri walked in different ways, Luri went down a different way down the steep path. Kitty walk the some of the edges of the trees, till she heard some strange voices. She recognised those kind of voices, so Kitty walked closer to them and the voices became more clearer.

Mowgli started to raise his voice, angrily said, "It's like everyone doesn't trust me and like everything I'm doing is wrong. First the men from the village, then at the party, and own the others, and I can't believe Kitty too."

"Okay, Mowgli" Rikki first said calmily, then suddenly he spotted Kitty walking up from behind, he repeated again in panic for Mowgli for he didn't notice.

"First, I heard that she's leaving and now she kept this always this time from me" Mowgli said with a hard slap on the letter, "She's just like them."

"And who exactly is them?" Kitty shcokly asked with her arms angrily across.

Mowgli turned around and was surpriced to see Kitty behind him, and now felt went wrong from what he just said.

Luri walked down and saw her wolf brothers hanging around with Bagheera and Baloo, she noticed that her brothers had shameful look on their faces.

"What happened?" Bagheera asked in a loud, angry tone towards the wolf brothers.

"He's just taking some time for himself, that's all" Sura answered.

"Yeah, everyone needs those" Akru said.

"Like you do when you think of what you say before you spoiled it out" Grey commented on Akru for when he gave it away earlier.

"What's going on?" Luri asked to everyone.

"I think your brothers are covering for Mowgli" Baloo answered aftered he finished his berries and now fully focused on the conversation.

Suddenly there were some loud shouting behind the trees and bushes on the small cliff.

"I believe you!" Kitty shouted.

"Kitty, wait, please!" Mowgli shouted back.

Rikki sneaked passed the two man-cubs and towards the others through the bushes. Baloo asked to Rikki, "What's going on?"

"Nothing, nothing, everything's fine" Rikki tried to answer in a calm tone.

"Kitty, I'm so sorry, I didn't mean it" Mowgli tried to talk to Kitty face to face, but she keeps on walking away.

"And I guess you didn't mean to sneck into my bag!" Kitty shouted.

"Oh…" the wolf brothers said at the same time.

"He did he really?"

"Oh, no" Bagheera said to himself.

Back at the argument, Kitty shouted, "Have you got no respect when you're going into people's privacy?"

"I didn't really mean too" Mowgli said, then he came to his point, "And what about you that you didn't do anything wrong."

Kitty's face was confused, "I didn't."

Mowgli said coldly, "That you this letter tells me that I had an uncle all this time, and it's Buldeo!"

"Wo!" Baloo, and the wolves said at the same time.

"I can't believe it" Luri said.

"I know, I could see the resembles, but he's really is his uncle" Baloo said.

"Alright, I'm sorry that I didn't tell you earlier" Kitty confessed, then asked, "But Mowgli do you know what this means?"

"Yeah, it's means I got an uncle" Mowgli answered as it was so simple to say.

Kitty answered, "It means everything Buldeo owns now belongs you, his money, his treaures, everything."

"So, what's wrong with that?" Mowgli asked in confusion.

"First, you need to have a security check to keep care of all of your stuff in case there has been a ribboning."

"What's that?" Mowgli asked.

"Exactly" Kitty points out that Mowgli still doesn't quite understand much about man's things in the world yet.

"And, second I don't Buldeo is the type of man to give that gives his things away" Kitty finally explained.

"You think?" Rikki sarcastically said after what Kitty said about Buldeo.

"Maybe we go" Grey said.

"No, wait, we can't just go in, they'll realised that we've been listening" Luri said.

"Maybe it could be fine, I mean they can just ignore us" Sura said.

"You right I shouldn't have looked inside you bag, but Grey, Akru and Sura convince me to do, because they thought that if I'm going to know soon so why not now" Mowgli said.

Luri slowly turned her head eerily towards to her wolf brothers with a death stare, Baloo and Bagheera just stare at them with madness. The wolf brothers saw they reaction and they all took a step back except Grey, he said cutely, "Please don't kill us."

Luri's angrily growled at her brothers, then all of her range made her about to leap out at them. Bagheera thankfully got in the way to stop Luri, "Calm down Luri, even hurting your brothers won't makes thing perfect and easy, believe me." Bagheera made a small eye contact to Luri and pointed to Baloo.

"Well, you know what they say, like mother like daughter" Akru laughed a little.

Luri and Bagheera turn their heads towards Akru with their eerily stares at him, from what Akru meant was that Luri can be angrily just like her mother.

"Hey, I'm the least favourite, so I'll be the last one for anyone to listen to" Akru complained just so to save his skin.

"Yep, that's why I hope no one can hear this" Baloo smiley walk towards the wolf brothers, then slapped them hard with his paw in a line like dominoes, "You know about this, and you never told us before."

"Mowgli gets to go parties and probably meet the love of his life, and yet we get the slap in our faces" Grey said, then they all went back to listening to the argument.

Mowgli was still angry for Kitty, he asked, "We did you just look for me and then tell."

"I did, but I found Bagheera and Raksha first and I thought they'll be more understanding" Kitty answered.

Baloo turned his head towards Bagheera in a surprised, "You knew before, we didn't you tell me."

"I was, but you were eating, very distracted" Bagheera answered, then Baloo nodded a little for he eventually agreed.

"And what did you mean by I'm just like them. I mean, who them?"

Mowgli paused for second, "I mean, the others in the village, like Buldeo."

"So, I'm like Buldeo."

"No, no, I mean, like everybody thinks that what I do is always wrongs."

"It's hard to explain Mowgli, you don't much about man's things yet."

"That means nothing right now, now it's confusing that you lie about not telling me, that you're leaving forever, and…"

"Wait, wait, wait," Kitty points out to stop him talking, "Who said that I'm leaving forever?"

Everyone hiding was in a surprised too, Mowgli answered, "Your father told me about staying in England and having a future there."

"Yeah, I thought of having a future there. What each because we like each other that means that I should give up my life?" Kitty laughed a bit thinking it was joke.

"No, no, I mean… it's like bees" Mowgli answered straight out.

Bagheera looked confused, "Bees?"

"On no" Baloo said to himself, then Bagheera annoyedly looked at Baloo.

Kitty huffed, "Oh, so that's what you think it is? That's what you think I am to you? What's gotten into you?"

"Look I just having a hard with Buldeo, and now he's my uncle, I don't even know if that's great or worst?"

"Well, I never wanted this too you know, I want you to be like this."

"Like what? Like at the party, I humiliated myself, that I'm not as perfect as you humans are."

"You humans? Well have you look at yourself in the river lately?"

"Oh, she shup him up" Baloo said in low, but cherry-full tone.

"You know you actually sound like a bit of Buldeo, I mean he's really gone in his head, hasn't he?"

"No, besides him I got too mind in my head, the fact that everyone is saying that I should this and I should do that. But every time I do things I'm always getting into trouble. Look, I'm sorry, but I'm not the one who lied and didn't say anything about Buldeo and this is how things go, wheather you like it or not. Yeah, I went into your private stuff, only because you were hiding things from me."

"Because there's a lot to do about the will, Mowgli, don't you understand?"

"Oh, why do you care, you're leaving anyway!"

Kitty took a long breath in, and said, "Wow, I can't believe you are throwing at my face. Let me remind you, I'm not the leaving, I'm the mover, I'm the one that gets move around anywhere from harm or trouble, well guess what it's everywhere and we couldn't do everything. I don't know what you heard from dad, but how would you like if I force you chosen whether to stay in the village or the jungle? I'm sorry if I hunt, I thought I was trying to help. But you know who sound like, like what you want everything to be in control? Who is worse than Buldeo."

"Who?" Mowgli asked.

"Shere Khan" Kitty answered.

Mowgli face transformed from range to shock, he always hated Shere Khan for he did in the past, but he thought of sounding like the tiger. The others behind were in a great shock too, now realising what Kitty meant.

Kitty walked away, took the letter and crunched it all up in a ball, "Take this stupid if it means so much to you!" Kitty threw straight at Mowgli, but he ducked quick out of its way. Then the ball headed though the bushes and hit Rikki, he fallen from behind a bush off the small cliff. Then Kitty sadly stumbled away from Mowgli, while deep down she's trying to hide her tears back from her eyes.

"Kitty, I didn't…" Mowgli tried to apologise, but Kitty ignored him and walked off faster.

Mowgli thought it all though now, he was being selfish, Mowgli remembered what Baloo first said earlier, that this wasn't going to make Kitty happy but to make himself happy. Mowgli decided to walk off in a different direction alone, his head looked coldly down on the hard ground.

The others took a deep breath for themselves to think, Baloo suggested, "I think we should all go and, um, take some time for ourselves."

Everyone nodded in silent as they slowly walked away from each other; Rikki was jumping off back to the man-village, Sura was walking to see his pups, Luri and Akru were heading to their home cave at Council Rock. Baloo was about to leave with them till he noticed that not all of them were leaving. Bagheera was laying down with his head resting on his arms in depress.

Baloo walked up to Bagheera, and asked, "You'll alright Baggy?"

Bagheera answered, "I'm fool, I should have been prepared for this before, or maybe should have told him first when I knew."

"Oh, come on Baggy, we all make mistakes like every day. I mean what would the kid be without you and your wisdom."

"And without you, he won't be himself, you inspire the man-cub to keep on learning his new tricks and making. What would he be without you?"

"Probably disgusting in a python's stomach" Baloo answered to himself, tehn he talk back to Bagheera, "He was going to know about Buldeo, I mean we got some crazy surprises in some of their lives."

"It's not Buldeo, it's the man-cub's life, like what Kitty said, if he did have to choose either to stay in the village or the jungle? Remember yesterday" Bagheera raised his head.

Baloo nodded as that talk from yesterday did made him feel depress about Mowgli leaving him, he added, "Well he was going to find out eventually."

"Eventually, but today, not now" Bagheera said as he lowed his head back down on his arms.

Baloo had an idea, "How about at my place, just sleep peacefully for tonight then we can disgust it tomorrow?"

Bagheera took a second to think about but soon he decided that it would be a good idea. He nodded a little then raised up on his four legs and the pair walk along beside each other down to Baloo's cave.

Hey guys. So, I added some drama with an argument because I actually had thought about for a while. That Mowgli and Kitty had a crash, like-to-like relationship so I thought maybe a small argument about a huge dealer, because not all relationships are perfect. I said at the end in my first fanfiction story about why I added Kitty Bryon from England, because of British Imperialism. Like how some countries can become goof allies then they get their arguments, like England and India (I think I'm terrible at History).

Come to that Buldeo is Mowgli's uncle! Well, I had thought about it recently and thought that it could go well. I got this idea from the second jungle book: Mowgli and Baloo the movie. Buldoe was Mowgli's uncle in that movie, and if you want to know what happens then you must find out yourself, because I'm going to be a big spoiler! Also, I don't this idea.

Right, that's it for this chapter. Hope that you're really enjoying this, please leave some comments about what you think. See you soon!