Disclaimer: Don't own Lion King. If I did, Kana would be a real character.
Some time later, Kiara and Kana were young lionesses, just about ready for their first hunt. They'd grown up as if they were sisters. Kana was bigger, and the three spots on her right hind leg were gone, and she now had three small black spots under her right eye. Kiara was a beautiful lioness. Neither of them had seen Kovu since that day. Today, Kiara and Kana were going for their first hunt. They walked down from the den together, the other lionesses watching. Kana stopped and sat down, while Kiara walked forward and nuzzled her parents.
" Daddy, please let us do this by ourselves," Kiara said. Simba, although relectuant, nodded in agreement. Kiara smiled, and then she and Kana left. Simba turned to Timon and Pumbaa.
" Make sure they don't get hurt," he instructed, and off the two went.
Meanwhile, Kovu, his sister Vitani and his brother Nuka were beginning a plan. They were going to start a fire while Kiara was hunting, then Kovu would save her, to get close to Simba. Then when they were alone, he would kill him. Vitani and Nuka were getting ready.
Kiara and Kana found a herd of wildebeest, and they were in position. But then Kiara snapped a stick as she stepped on it, alerting the wildebeest, and they ran. Kana, in a panic, pounced at one, but she missed, hitting the ground and rolling. Getting up and shaking the dirt from her fur, Kana tried to hide how annoyed she was. Kiara, however, could still see it in her face.
" I'm sorry, Kana. I'll be more careful," Kiara apoligized, and Kana smiled.
" I shouldn't be cross. It's our first time hunting, after all," Kana replied, Kiara smiling back. However, as the day wore on and Kiara made several more mistakes, Kana become more and more cross. After Kiara scared off a herd of zebra by mistake, Kana had had it. She walked over to Kiara, snarling.
" I'm going to hunt on my own!" Kana exclaimed, and turned and raced off in another direction. Kiara was upset by how she had made her friend who felt like a sister run off.
" If only I hadn't made so many mistakes," Kiara muttered, then went off to try again. As a herd of antelope ran, Kiara saw smoke. She began to run the other way, but the wind blew the fire in the same direction. As fire surrounded her, she jumped into a tree and then onto a small cliff. Taking a few more steps, she collapsed from the heat and smoke of the fire.
At the same time, Kana had just caught a young antelope. It cried weakly from underneath her. Kana was about to bite into it, when she smelled smoke. Turning and releasing the antelope, it got up and jumped away. Kana saw the smoke and flames rising into the sky, and worried about Kiara. She raced towards it, but stopped when she saw Kovu, with Kiara on his back, running in her direction. Kana turned and ran too. When they were safe from the fire, the lion and lioness stopped running. Kovu gently put Kiara's unconscious form on the ground. Kana growled at him.
" What did you do to her?!" she snapped, claws extended.
" I saved her life. You should be grateful," Kovu hissed, his own claws extended. The two were about to attack each other, when Simba, Nala and a few other lionesses showed up, along with Zazu. Kovu sheathed his claws, and took a step back. Kana, too, sheathed her claws and sat down, but she still glared at Kovu. After a discussion between Simba and Kovu, Kovu was allowed to join the pride, temporarily. As the group headed back to Pride Rock, Kana growled lowly. Suddenly she stopped walking, for she had caught the scent of an Outlander, and it wasn't Kovu. Somehow, Nuka had been left behind, and he had been heading back to the Outlands when Kana caught his scent. Kana raced off, leaving the pride to wonder what she was doing. She found him not far off, and the two, with claws extended, moved opposite of each other, circling.
With a roar, Kana lunged forward, claws ripping into Nuka's shoulders. Nuka roared with pain, digging his own claws into Kana's sides. Kana injected her claws into Nuka's neck, then flipped him to the side. Nuka got back up, and they circled each other again. As they circled, Simba and the pride rushed up. Kiara, who had come back into consciousness, was worried about Kana. Kovu was more worried about Nuka, even though he wasn't that fond of him. As the two attacked each other again, Kana scratched downwards across Nuka's eyes. He roared with pain, and shut his eyes. As he did, Kana bit down hard into his neck. Nuka clawed wildly, catching Kana's neck and shoulders. Kana kept a hold on Nuka's neck, and slowly but surely he died. Kana let go of his neck and backed away, breathing heavily. She walked slowly towards the pride. Kovu glared at her, but it was unnoticed. Kana relaxed as other two other lionesses licked at her neck wounds. Kiara was glad that she was, for the most part, ok. Kana licked at her shoulder and side wounds for a while, then the pride went back to Pride Rock. Once there, Kana resumed licking her wounds, which were not deemed serious enough for Rafiki. Kana wandered into the den for some rest, as Kovu and Kiara had a talk about her hunting skills.
" So you think you could teach me better?" Kiara asked him.
" Of course," Kovu answered.
" Then you'll teach me?" Kiara asked again.
" Alright," Kovu answered. Kiara smiled.
The next day, Kovu was lying on open ground, looking bored. He knew that in a couple of seconds, Kiara would pounce at him, based on all the noise she was making. He ducked just as she pounced and she went flying overhead, hitting the ground and rolling onto her back. Kovu stood up and went over to her, looking down. Kiara laughed, and stood up. The the lion and lioness then heard shouts over the hill, and they went to find out what was going on. There was Timon, running around chasing birds that wouldn't leave. Pumbaa tried charging at them, just to have them fly up then land again when he was past. Timon, frusterated, walked up to Kiara.
" Lend a voice," he said, Kovu tilting his head to the side in confusion. Kiara let out a loud roar, scaring the birds. Kovu roared as well, scaring the rest of them, and he began to run when Kiara did. Kiara laughed, but Kovu was still a little confused.
" What kind of training is this?" he asked, making Kiara laugh more.
" This isn't training. This is for fun!" she shouted.
" Fun?" Kovu asked, but he wasn't heard. Timon and Pumbaa were running just ahead of them, and they suddenly stopped, right before they ran into a group of rhinos. The group screamed and ran the other way as the rhinos chased them, ducking into a small hole in the rocks. They watched the rhinos rumble by, then the four of them squeezed out, but not before Kiara and Kovu accidentally kissed. Awkwardly, they got out and laughed, as Rafiki came and led Kiara and Kovu to Upendi. The lion and lioness sat on a heart shaped leaf that acted as a boat, which floated down a long winding river.
Meanwhile, Vitani was back in the Pridelands, looking for Nuka. She grumbled something about him being too stupid to get back to the Outlands, when she tripped over something. She went sprawling face first into the dirt. She got up, irritated, and turned to look at what she tripped over. She was horrified to see it was her brother's body. She went racing off, headed back home to tell her mother. Vitani had no idea who had killed her brother, but she guessed that it was Simba.
"Did you find Nuka?" Zira snarled, wondering where her bumbling idiot of a son was.
"He's been killed!" Vitani exclaimed. Zira's eyes widened in an instant and she looked positively furious.
" By who?!" Zira roared.
"I don't know! I didn't see the killer! I thought it was Simba!" Vitani replied quickly.
" I'll kill him! You hear me?! I'll kill him for this!" Zira roared even louder than before.
Second Chapter, out of three and a epilogue!!