Okay, everyone please note right now that not all of these little letter chapters are from the same "Universe", you could say. Some of them will be some time after TLK2: Simba's Pride, and some will be right after. Some they may already have cubs in, and some they may not. Some that they do have cubs in, will be different cubs (eg. Some they may have just a son named Kioda, some two kids, ect.) So don't get confused, just remember they're not all in the same story, okay? In my head, Kovu and Kiara have two kids, a boy Kota and a girl Tama. But in order to make this chapter work, I changed that and created a new son, just for this chapter ;). This one is also much longer-don't get used to it. They won't be super short, but they aren't all gonn abe this long.

And thanks to my only reviewer MadAboutStories! :)

B: Buffalo

Kiara's ears pricked up, her immediately jumping to her feet as she heard Kioda's squalls.

"Kioda," she breathed, racing down Pride Rock's long sloping exit. She barely heard her paws on the ground as she practically flew to the source of her cub's cries-the Watering Hole.

Kioda's black rimmed ears flattened against his head, emerald green eyes widened with pure fear. Shrinking back against the rock he was pinned to, he frantically glanced to his sides for any kind of an exit.

The three buffalo closed in, slowly, as though cruelly trying to lengthen his fear. Buffalo were known for trampling young cubs, even if they were the royal heir. To make matters worse, these seemed to be missing a few screws.

A sudden glint of bravery flashing through his eyes, he stepped forward a bit, anger masking the fear in his eyes slightly.

Puffing out his chest and what he had of a mane, he let out the loudest roar he could muster.

The buffalo stepped closer, ignoring his small squeak, as though it had only been a small field mouse having a disagreement with another mouse on whose piece of fruit it was.

Kioda squinted his eyes, pretending to be unfazed—although he clearly was. Opening his jowls yet again, he let out a slightly louder roar. This one was loud enough to equal that of a large rat.

Trying one last time, he opened his mouth as far as possible and started to let out a third roar. This one was loud enough to hear all the way back at Pride Rock, however.

And sounded strangely like a lionesses's roar.

Kiara leapt forwards, landing on top of the larger buffalo's back. A rodeo-like struggle ensued, and Kioda could only stand frozen as he watched his mother battle the large beast.

Why had he had to sneak out while she was sleeping?

Kiara fought with all she had, although even though she only showed confidence and determination, dark thoughts crept into the deep recesses of her mind. It takes at least three lionesses to take down an average buffalo, but two? And there's only one of me... They whispered to her.

Letting out a cry of fury, she again leaped up onto the larger buffalo's back, even though he shook her around like a ragdoll.

Sparing a precious second to check on her cub, she saw that the other, smaller buffalo was closing in on Kioda. She pounced onto the ground near her son, before leaping again upon the side of the other buffalo's back.

He shook her around, and though she held on as hard as she could his horn caught her, throwing her off and hurling her the the air. She landed ten feet away, smashing her head on the flat rocks.

Still barely conscious, she let out a long, low whimper. "No... Kioda... Kovu..." She rasped, the last words coming out as barely a whisper. Her head fell to the ground, eyes watering, and her vision blurred, as she watched the two buffalo closing in on her only son, the heir to the throne.

Then suddenly, he was there. He roared louder than she had ever heard him roar before, and with a look of pure fury, he lunged forwards towards the first buffalo. He lashed out with his claws, ducking the swoop of the buffalo's horns.

Wipping his paw out, he cut a nasty gash on the animal's leg, before ducking again as a hoof came for him and rolling to his right. He immediately was back up, and after another lunge he landed on the side of the buffalo, biting his neck as he did so.

After a long struggle, he brought the best to the ground finally, panting. He turned to the second monster, snarling. Kioda shrank against the tall rock, cowering under it as though trying to make himself disappear. Kovu bared his fangs, forcing the buffalo back.

"Leave... now!"

The buffalo lowered its head, lowed, and turned to gallop off into the distance. Kovu stood vigilant, not daring to move until it had vanished from his sight.

Panting, he returned to his son and wife, nuzzling his son quickly before racing over to his mate.

"Kiara," he breathed, worry eminent in his emerald orbs. He searched her sleeping face for any signs of consciousness... of life. Her eyes slowly pricked open.

Seeing Kovu with a worried, puffy-eyed Kioda next to him, she sighed, as though a great weight had been lifted off her chest.

"Kovu!"

She tried to stand up, shaking slightly, and pitching forwards into Kovu, getting a mouthful of mane.

"Hey, hey, it's okay, I'm here..."

"Kovu... I-I tried to stop them, but there were too many, and I wasn't strong enough an-and..."

"Hey, it's fine. You did everything you could. You yourself know that a single lioness could never take down buffalo, let alone two!"

He smirked.

"I might need to watch out, you're getting better at hunting..."

Kiara put on a playful frown. "That's right! Looks like the student has become the master."

Kovu raised his eyebrows. "Did I say that? Who killed the buffalo, little miss Princess?"

She rolled her eyes. She hated it when Kovu called her that! She grinned devilishly. "You'd better watch out, Exile..."

"Oh, please, what could you do to me?"

Kiara went on to list things she could pull on him. Kioda stood there in between them, obviously bored with it all, his eyes flicking back and forth between them as though watching a ping-pong match as they continued to banter. He was getting pretty sick of it.

"Are we ever going home?"

Kovu and Kiara stopped suddenly, jumping at the sound of their son's voice.

They were silent for a minute or so, before Kiara and Kovu locked eyes, both grinning evilly. Kioda didn't like where this was going.

"Oh?" Kovu started, "You'd rather us go home and discuss what happened today with you?" He arched his eyebrows, pretending to look stern but there was a gleam Kiara had seen so many times in the corner of his eye.

Kioda's face whitened.

"D-Dad, I'm sorry! Dad, I didn't—I don't know what I was doing—I should have stayed home, like Mom said-"

He and Kiara broke into peals of giggles, and Kioda stood there, confused and worried.

Catching their breath, they finally stood up, sides heaving. Kioda lunged at the chance to get out of his eminent groundation.

"Hahaha.. so, uh, Dad... are we going home now? Ev-everything's good now, right?" His eyes were bright, hoping that his mom and dad would crack another joke and that they would just go home.

Again Kiara and Kovu looked at each other, nodded as though they read each others minds, and looked back to their son.

Grinning, Kovu gave him the answer; "Not on your life, Buster."

For the record, I absolutely despise this chapter. I had a serious case of writer's block though, and this was all I could think of *Sighs*. Plus I only got one review, so... talk about no motivation! Same thing with this chapter; if you want an update, review! Not only will I update faster, but I'll have way more motivation and will do it better so that you won't lose the loss of your other eye, because you already lost the use of one of them with this atrocious chapter. Sorry about this, I better go call my lawyer now—I'm gonna need a good one so that I don't get sued for blinding people ^_^.