Chapter 11 Scar's Cave
The Pridelands its beauty was endless it was a neverending sea of green with herds of all kinds sprinkling the lush landscape it was almost perfect, but there was of course the nasty scab called the Outlands and an Elephant Graveyard just outside the border, other than that this could be lion heaven. Uzuri couldn't help but feel a little sad by the fact that Kiu couldn't make it here to see such a beautiful place. 'What's that smell?' it was salty like the ocean but also earthy, the odd aroma pulled Uzuri off of the stone slab that she was resting on, and brought her to a partially hidden cavern on the side of Pride Rock.
Zazu fluttered down in front of her before she entered the cave and bowed to Uzuri, "Your cousin is on official business to the Marshlands and she should be back before the end of next week my dear."
"Thank you Zazu, do happen to know what kind of business she is seeing to?" She asked.
"I think she went down there to manufacture an alliance, some of the rogues from that pride are causing some trouble up here. I think the one that she went down there for is so that the King of the Marshlands will accept "V" back he has been trying to lure some of the lionesses from the Pride."
'So he is Royalty,' Uzuri thought to herself, "Ok that is all Zazu, thank you." Zazu smiled and returned to his normal job.
"Hey Uzuri where are you?" Sarafina called out. "Come on I was suppose to give you the grand tour."
"In here," Uzuri called from the mouth of a cave.
"Why are you down here?" Sarafina asked.
"I was just exploring and I found this cave and I figured why not take a peak around." she said.
"You do know this is Scar's Cave right, the late Ahadi promised this cave to be his since the light never actually fully touches it so the King can't own it, so this is kinda like his consolation prize."
"Oh cool."
"We should probably leave Scar doesn't really like to have others in his cave."
"You're right I don't." Scar said as he entered the cave clearly agitated at the intrusion of his privacy.
"Ok we will leave." Uzuri said, winking at Scar causing him to turn a little red.
When the two were out of earshot Sarafina burst out laughing, "So the rumors are true, you are trying to seduce Scar." Uzuri playfully pushed Sarafina.
"I see you two are getting along just fine." Mufasa said surprising Uzuri."How are things with Scar though?"
"She made him blush, but he is still being kind of funny." Sarafina said.
"Ok did Zazu find you alright, Sarabi sent Stelle out to deal with a lioness matter but she didn't tell me." Mufasa said.
"He found me fine, and he told me." Uzuri said. 'I wonder why Zazu didn't tell him about V?'
"Ok I will leave you two and let you finish doing whatever you were doing."
"Wanna go get some water?" Sarafina asked her.
The two walked to the watering hole in silence, and Sarafina ducked into the shade of a nearby tree. "So you never answered my question." Uzuri said when she was done drinking.
"What are you talking about, what question?" Sarafina said rolling out of the encroaching sunlight.
"When I first got here, I asked who was the father and there are only two males in this pride." she asked playfully poking Sarafina in her belly.
"Well I can tell you for certain that it is not Scar's or Mufasa's."
"Well who's is it, this has been bugging me for a while now."
Sarafina quickly peeked around to ensure that they were alone. "He is a rogue from my homeland." Uzuri's heartbeat quickened as she instinctively thought of V. "His name is Ni." Uzuri was relieved but she didn't quite know why.
"How did you meet him?" she asked.
"Well you know I was to be betrothed to Scar, and to honest I really liked him, but…"
"But, what?"
"He changed after he got into the conflict with Boma, I wanted to make it work but it just didn't and soon I found Ni and before you know it I was expecting." Sarafina said as she gazed down at her paws, Uzuri knew that Sarafina felt guilty about something but what she didn't know. "Tell you what I will tell you after the little one is born." She said causing Uzuri to smile.
"When do you think she will be born?" Uzuri asks.
"What makes you think it will be a girl?" Sarafina retorted.
"I got a hunch."
Sarafina burst out laughing, "That's funny ahhh..."
Uzuri punched her in the shoulder, "So how long do you think till she will be born?"
Sarafina was unfazed by the shot to her shoulder, "About two months, why do you care?" She asks as she tried to regain her breath.
"Do you think Mufasa would be okay with me joining my cousin on the diplomatic mission in the Marshlands?" Uzuri said, "And be back for her presentation of course."
"Nice save." Sarafina said a little irked by her wanting to leave. "Sarabi is the one who sent out the mission so you should ask her."
"I will need a guide to the Marshland, I want you to come with." Uzuri made her lost cub eyes trying to appeal to Sarafina's maternal instincts.
Sarafina smiled and placed her paw on Uzuri's face and pushed her back playfully, "Fine I will go with."
Uzuri hugged Sarafina around her neck, "Thank you, Thank you so much."
"We will ask her tonight." Uzuri nodded still not letting go of Sarafina's neck.
AN: We have seen the stories where Sarafina and Zira (AKA Uzuri) hate each other but I haven't seen anywhere they were friends so I took that route. What do you think of my choice of Nala's father (Ni) but the next few chapters I do believe are quite a bit longer than when I killed Kiu and destroyed the Coastlands, so enjoy please review I have been getting plenty of support from others on the site so thanks and you guys sending support will only further motivate me to finish my story.