I don't own any of the characters! Including Kopa! Sorry for the kind of long update, but here the next chapter is, finally!

"Well the night I ran away, it stormed, and to get away from it I hid under a hollowed out tree right out side the Pride Lands. Then the next day I traveled. I went through the Green Lands without a problem. When I got to the Grass Lands, I ran into Lamka. By then I was dehydrated and in need of rest, so she took me to her father, King Laro. He didn't like the idea of me, but there wasn't another cub that Lamka could marry when she got older, so he let me stay on the agreement that I would become the next king, once he dies."

"Wow, thats quite a story." Simba says in shock, "I assume that he wouldn't let you leave, so that's why you didnnt' come back, but why didn't you send word?"

"I don't know, actually I thought that sometime I would run away from there to, and probably come back, but I started to really like Lamka, and so I stayed." Kopa says giving Lamka a nuzzle.

"Oh... well that is quite a story." Nala says also in shock.

Vitani is also shocked by this, and quite frankly, she's pissed off! 'How could that bastard?! He promised! I don't give a damn if he started to like this chick, he loved me first! Sure she's pretty, but is there anything behind her brown eyes?!" she thinks to herself, as other lionesses ask more questions.

The conversation goes on for a while longer. Vitani is tired of hearing about Kopa's great life without her so she slips out into the Pride Lands, finds a good rock, and eventually fall asleep.

Night slowly closes in. The sunlight is chased away by the darkness that takes over the land. Some of the animals find a suitable place to stay for the night, while others come out to play in the night.

Kopa has noticed Vitani's absence, and is worried about her not being here as it gets dark. He sees Kovu walking into the den.

"Hey, Kovu, have you seen Vitani?"

"No, I haven't. Don't worry I know she's fine." Kovu replies with a yawn knowing that when his sister is missing she wants to be alone.

"Well I think I might go look for her."

"I don't think that would be the best idea."

"Why?"

"Cuz, when she's alone, you better leave her alone, or she will make it so you'd wish you did leave her alone."

"That doesn't sound like Vitani." Kopa says shocked at what Kovu had said

Kovu gives Kopa a 'are you kidding' look, "ok, it's your funeral." he says walking into the cave to find Kiara.

Kopa makes his way off Pride Rock, he quickly finds Vitani's sent and follows it.

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Vitani is still sleeping on a small rock by a little pond that sparkled in the night. Suddenly she is woken up by a slight rustle behind her, she doesn't move. She listens to the way they were walking, she could tell it was a male, but it definitely wasn't Simba, and didn't sound like Kovu either. She wondered why someone would be out here this late, and they were definitely trying to be quiet. She heard them get closer, the ground rustling under their feet. Then she made up her mind, they got closer, and then she jumped! Tackling the lion to the ground and pinning him instantly. She looks at the lion as she notices who it is.

"What are you doing out here?" Vitani says bitterly as she gets off him looking away.

"You weren't back yet and I thought something might have happened to you, so I came looking for you." Kopa says honestly

"I can take care of myself." she says sitting back down on her rock, looking out into the pond.

"I was just worried about you."

"Why do you care anyway?"

"Vitani! You know I care about you." Kopa says in shock

Vitani doesn't respond.

"Fine if you don't want me here I'll leave."

"No ones stopping you." Vitani says not even looking at him.

Kopa is again shocked, he turns away about to leave, but then has second thoughts. "What's your problem?" He says turning sharply around and focusing on Vitani.

Vitani spins around anger written all over her face. "What's MY problem, you come back after three years, have this other prissy lioness with you, tell me you two are king and queen, and you are asking me what MY problem is!?" she walks briskly to him, her face right in his now, claws extended and her teeth partially bared.

Kopa is taken back and doesn't know what to say.

Vitani walks slightly away, "Ya know what, just go home! Get outta here!"

"I came back to see my family."

"Why didn't you earlier?"

"Didn't you hear my story!? I couldn't come back, he wouldn't let me, and I needed food and water! And I had to make a promise saying that I would marry his daughter.

"While we were still betrotherd!" Vitani says quickly

"But I wasn't here."

"But you were alive! Therefor we were still to be king and queen."

"I thought you said they thought I was dead."

"They did, but you were alive."

"It doesn't matter anyway, my sister is to be queen now."

"Well yeah I don't really care about that now, what I do care about is that you didn't even say anything to me, not a sorry, or anything!" Vitani says still burning with anger

"Because I didn't know what to say! I haven't seen you in a long time, and I was just trying to take everything in, nothings changed here."

"HA! You have NO idea what happened because YOU left!" she says, her mind racing with memories of her past.

"What?" Kopa asks confused.

"Simba couldn't find you, so they thought you were dead, my mother was known for not liking you, and didn't have an alibi for when you disappeared. She returned the night you left with blood on her face from a hunt, and Simba thought she killed you! She was exiled, I was exiled, we all were! My whole family! We were forced to live in the Outlands, infested with termites, no food, no water. We lived on Field mice Kopa!"

"I'm sorry, I didn't know."

"And that's not even it! Mother went mad, she was bent on revenge, she trained Kovu to kill Simba his whole life, and left the rest of us to fight for her attention. That part drove Nuka mad, Mother spent all of her time with Kovu and completely ignored Nuka, he died fighting for her attention!"

"What!? Nuka's dead!?" Kopa is again shocked

"Do you see him here?" she snaps

"Well I just thought that he went somewhere else."

"No."

"So what happened to your mother?"

"We had a battle, after Kovu fell in love with your sister and betrayed us, I and my pride mates realized that my mother was crazy, so we turned on her. She was so bent on destroying Simba that she tried to attack, and fell to the gorge and died. Then our prides came together again, and you come."

Kopa doesn't know how to respond, "So... is that why all of you are so skinny?"

"Yes Kopa it is," she says annoyed, "Feel free to blame it on yourself!" she turns away.

"Vitani... I'm sorry, if I'd of known, I would have come back in a heart beat."

"Whatever, it doesn't even matter anymore anyway, its all in the past."

"Then why are you so bitter?"

She shoots him a sharp glance. "Being out there makes you that way. being trained every day to kill, having to fight for food, getting ignored because your brother is within a hundred feet! To just talk to my mother I had to be good, real good, but not nice good, fierce good! I made my way to the top of the pride, taking anyone down that stood in my way!"

"Why didn't you just go and tell my parents what happned?"

"Because I thought you would come back! Then with all of the stories I heard of Scar, how he was the right king, and Simba killed him, I wanted to stay with them, and kill those that made it that I live in that God forsaken place!"

"My mother would have listened to you!"

"I grew mad at her the most! If she didn't have Kiara, you wouldn't have left."

"I came back didn't I?"

"Why did you? After all that time, why didn't you stay in the precious Grass Lands with the beautiful Lamka hmm?"

"Because!"

"Because, why?"

"Why didn't you just move one, find someone and get out of this place?"

"Because I still love you Kopa!" she looks away tears coming to her eyes.

Kopa doesn't say anything, there is a long pause.

"I still love you too." Kopa finally says quietly.

Vitani looks at him instantly. "What about Lamka?"

"I don't love her, I don't even like her that much, she's controlling, and just not, like me, I can't stand her sometimes." he says sitting down and looking at the ground.

"I don't understand, then what about all of the stuff you said?"

"I said all of that because she was there, and I don't want to hurt her."

Now Vitani doesn't know what to say. "You really don't love her?"

"No, I don't, I never forgot about you. I've missed you Vitani." Kopa looks up at her with a very soft expression, she can't look at him, her mind is racing about what to do.

She digs her head into his thick brown mane, slightly crying. All he can think to do is hug her, finally realizing what a mistake he made running away.

Well what do ya think? I hope you liked it!

P.S. this is not the last chapter, just in case it might seam like it.

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