Chapter VII

At that same moment in time, both Kopa and Vitani were anything but relaxed. Even though the two of them had thoroughly soaked and calmly rested within the cool, shallow waters of the Water Hole, this did little to ease the mental scars from the horrible, horrible images that they had seen beforehand. In particular, Kopa still felt unclean even while he rested as unflustered in the center of the Water Hole with Vitani just to his left. The sun was shining warmly on them, and both were soaking wet there in the water, which reached just past their legs and up to their necks. The couple had been like this for some time now, trying to relax themselves and give themselves a break from the horrors of the Internet.

Kopa turned to Vitani. "Damn... I still feel dirty. What about you?" He asked her. Vitani shook her head.

"I'm not feeling any better either." She replied. Kopa took a sad, deep breath. Another moment of silence passed between them both. Kopa, still feeling mentally exhausted, decided to sit down beneath the water so that only his head was above the surface. Vitani did the same, which stirred the water around a bit.

"You know... you know what the worst thing about that was?" Vitani said to Kopa, which made him perk up slightly.

"The fact that I'm probably never going to be able to look at anyone that I know and love the same way ever again?" He guessed. Vitani replied to him,

"Well, that... and the fact that it was just so deceiving."

"What do you mean?" Kopa asked her curiously. To this, the poor lioness replied, "Remember what we were seeing before Timon decided to pull that stunt? Besides the smut, it was all looking really good. I mean, I'm tempted to say I hate the art altogether, but..."

Kopa nodded. "I know what you mean. It's like it was luring us in, thinking all of the art was going to be like that... but then comes up and bites you in the tail when I didn't expect it."

"Exactly." Vitani said, nodding back to him. Kopa raised his paw up to his face, and he rubbed his eyes, then moving upwards to move the wet hair from his mane out of his face. Another moment of silence passed between them as Kopa and Vitani sat in the middle of the Water Hole together, letting their fur soak in the cool serenity of it.

"Hey Vitani?" Kopa said, breaking the silence. The lioness looked at him intently. "B-back there, Pumbaa said something about me being a hot topic around the Internet. W... what kind of art do you think there is about me?"

Vitani bowed her head down slightly when he asked this. She replied, "I don't think I want to know."

Kopa then said to her, "I mean I want to see the art about me... the good art. It's just, I know there's probably going to be just as much... well, you know."

Vitani looked up to him for a moment. "You know something, Kopa?" She started. "I was just thinking the same thing about myself. If I've got fans just like everyone else does..."

Kopa scooted a bit closer to her, rousing the waters around them some more. He brought his face slightly closer to hers.

"Don't worry about it, Vitani." He said comfortingly. "If you don't want to see yourself exploited like that, I can understand. And besides..."

He started to chuckle when he stopped, which earned him a confused look from Vitani.

"What? What is it?" She asked him. Kopa then replied, with his laughter dying down, "Nothing. I was just going to say... no matter what they draw you doing, you'll never be any less sexy in any of them..."

There was yet another moment of silence between them both. Kopa awkwardly said, "Okay, that was pretty bad, I'll admit."

Then unexpectedly, Vitani gave him a warm smile, bringing her face ever closer to his.

"That wasn't bad, Kopa." She said. "Right is what it was."

At that last part, her tone had changed into a bit of a sensual one, a tone in which Kopa knew exactly what it meant. Kopa decided to continue, "Well, not exactly... because none of them could ever be as sexy as the real you."

Vitani blushed and chuckled at his comment, which made Kopa give her an even warmer smile. Their faces were hardly an inch apart.

"I could say the same thing about you." Vitani replied.

Then, at that moment in time, Kopa placed his upper paws on Vitani's shoulders, now giving her a bit of a seductive look. She returned the expression.

"I think I just realized what could help us recover from those pictures." Kopa said softly. A moment of silence passed before Vitani replied, "I could really use it myself."

Then, knowing fully what they were about to do, Kopa said softly to her, "We're such hypocrites, aren't we?"

Vitani replied, "Yes we are, Kopa... yes we are..."

The image results were almost exactly what everyone sitting around the laptop had expected them to be. Kiara was especially horrified to see them, even if the initial shock factor had long worn off for her. She gazed in horror at what the Internet was making her do in the pictures, and deep in the back of her throat, she could feel herself starting to get severe indigestion from seeing all of this. Simba, after seeing his own daughter in positions he had never wished to see her in, covered his eyes with his paws, with Kovu resisting the urge to do the same. Simba took a deep breath.

The images were rather similar to what they had seen for Nala, many of them showing Kiara in extremely amorous situations with others, or showing off her regions beneath the tail in others, and more often than not having her do absolutely unspeakable sex acts. Timon reluctantly scrolled through the results to let the true horror of them sink in, for even he was beginning to feel sick from all of this.

"I can't believe this." Kovu muttered under his breath as he looked at the smut. "These sick bastards, who do they think they are?!"

As they went on, each of them began to notice a particularly disturbing trend. There were an uncomfortably large amount of pictures that depicted Kiara doing things with Simba, which made Simba, Nala and Kovu gasp in horror. Kiara gaped and stared blankly at these horrifying pictures, almost unable to bear the sight of her being depicted like this.

"This is revolting!" Simba suddenly blurted out. "Why is there so many pictures of Kiara and I doing... that?!"

Nala shook her head as she looked over to Shenzi, Banzai and Ed. "So... what do you think, guys?"

Shenzi shot her a glance before responding with, "I'm getting bored, actually."

Nala's eyes widened at her, clearly surprised by the hyena's answer. "What?! How would you-!"

Shenzi cut her off. "Uh, lady? We have no idea who this even is. Seriously, why are we supposed to care about someone we don't even know the name of?"

Nala angrily spat out to her, "She is my daughter! And her name is Kiara!"

The hyena shrugged. "Whatever, this really isn't doing much to me, honestly."

Banzai nodded. "Yeah, same here.", which was followed by Ed's typical illiterate drabble. Nala sighed, turning her attention back to the screen. She looked at the pictures of Simba doing Kiara both as a cub and as an adult, which made her cringe. Then, they all got to see the images involving Kiara with Kovu, which were all just as disgusting and nauseating as they had expected. Upon seeing these, both Kiara and Kovu blushed in embarrassment, knowing that everyone around her was seeing this too. The lioness rubbed her eyes, which were hurting from seeing all of this.

Roughly one minute passed, and it was filled with nothing but wild, often exaggerated smut between Kovu and Kiara. But then suddenly, Kovu leaned in closer to the screen, and he seemed to squint at the images... almost as though he were looking for something. Then, his eyes shot open.

"Hey... wait a second here!" He shouted, which made Timon stop the scrolling. Everyone looked at him, including the hyenas.

"What is it, kid?" Timon asked him, with a hint of concern in his voice. Upon doing so, the meerkat saw that Kovu had an disgusted, angered look on his face. He exclaimed, "Look at these! Do... do I not have my scar in any of these?!"

There was a silent pause as Timon gave him an awkward look. "Uh...yeah, why's that a problem?"

Kovu replied, "If I don't have a scar in these, then that means they're showing us doing this before we were married! That's sick!"

Simba and Nala both shook their heads in revulsion, realizing that upon closer look at the pictures, Kovu was right. Nine out of ten of them that happened to have Kovu involved did not feature his scar, which suddenly made the whole thing all the more painful to look at for them. Kiara turned back to him, showing how vibrantly she was embarrassingly blushing at that moment.

"These make me look like some kind of slut!" Kiara suddenly said, breaking her silence. "Why would I do it with him within a day after meeting him?! I would never be like that!"

Kovu nodded. "We went a whole two weeks after Zira was killed before we made anything official, doesn't anybody on here know that?!"

Shenzi then said indifferently, "Again, anyone mind filling us in here? We're uh, still kind of lost about this."

Then, in quite possibly the most unexpected thing Kovu had ever said, he exclaimed, "It's just a simple scar, it can't be that hard to draw! At least if I had my scar in these, some of them would be accurate!"

Everyone looked at him immediately, all with suddenly shocked looks on their faces. Simba, Nala and Kiara looked especially caught off guard by Kovu's choice of words. Upon realizing what he had just said, he blushed. Defensively, he said to them,

"Uhh, t-that came out wrong! I-I didn't mean to say that!"

"Dude... I don't even know who the hell you are, and even I say that's just messed up." Banzai commented before anyone else could. Shenzi and Ed nodded, for even Ed seemed to understand what Kovu accidentally said there.

Kovu looked more embarrassed there than he ever had his entire life. He glanced over to Kiara, who was giving him a disturbed, unsettled look the likes of which he had never before seen from her. The lion felt as though his eyes would bleed if he were to look back at Simba right then. He stood up. Awkwardly, and after a few moments, he finally managed to say,

"So uh... K-Kopa's been gone a while... maybe I-I should go get him? Anyone?... Yeah I'll just be going now..."

He did not wait for any kind of response for the others. Springing forth, he ran out of the cave and into the sunlight, uttering fierce obscenities to himself for letting that thought slip out. He left with every single one of the others having their mouths wide open in shock, and their eyes looking horrified.

Suddenly, Kiara then leaned in closer to the computer screen, and she squinted hard at the horrific smut before her. She said,

"You know... to be fair, he actually was kind of right about that..."

Author's Note: I would like to give my thanks to Eclipsewolftakeover for the feedback on the first part of this chapter. I did try to smooth out the pacing on it, but no matter what I wrote, it just felt even worse, so I just left it as it was. And before any future concerns rise up, the first section here was in fact played for laughs, not to be taken too seriously. I hope you enjoyed, and please review!