A/N:I'm glad you liked the cubs, I'm going to try my best to explore their growth. Now here's the next chapter.
"Jaali! Jaali! Where are you?"
Vitani has been searching for her nephew ever since she departed with her brother. She wanted to talk to him herself but the golden brown cub didn't want to come out, wherever he may be hidding.
"Leave me alone!"
Vitani sighed before heading towards the direction the voice came from. To stop at a hollow log. The light tan lioness looked in and saw the cub lying on his stomach with his back paws to his side as his head laid on his crossed paws turned to the side.
"Jaali...why did you run off?"
"I want to live with my mother and nana Asani"
Vitani sighed as she rested her flank on the cool green grass. "You can't return to your mother. You have to stay here"
Jaali snorted. "So that traitor can raise me"
Vitani took a deep breath and looked up at the sky. The sun was setting, casting beautiful colours of pink, orange and purple.
"You can call your father a traitor but we changed for the better."
Jaali moved his head so it was facing the log entrance where he glared holes into his aunt. "You betrayed grandma too?! What does Uncle Nuka say about this?"
Vitani tour her gaze from the sky to the month and a half cub. Tears threatened to fall but she fought them back but not before letting a few fall. Her thin dark brown rimmed ears pinned against her head as she lowered it. Jaali's ears flickered at the actions and emotions his aunt displayed. Vitani took deep calming breaths before looking up. She opened her mouth to say something but closed it again. She debated if she should tell him but that was taken out of her paws when her ears twitched at the sound of someone calling her name.
"Vitani!"
The light tan lioness looked over her shoulder to see her brother walking over. She raised a questioning eyebrow at the brown lion. "Kovu...what are you doing here? Aren't you so pose to be with Kiara?"
Kovu sighed before setting his flank on the ground on Vitani's side but not by her side. But close enough to look inside the log.
"She went to sleep so I came to check on Jaali."
The golden brown cub huffed before lying his head back on his paws and turned it to the side. "Don't worry about me"
Kovu sighed deeply before looking at his sister. "How is it going?"
The light tan lioness inhaled and exhaled before lowering her head. "I'm debating whether to tell him or not about mother and Nuka"
Jaali's ears flickered before he moved his head to look at his father and aunt. "What happened to grandma Zira and uncle Nuka?"
Kovu and Vitani shared a look before the brown lion looked at his son. Who looked at him with questioning green eyes. He sighed deeply as his ears pinned against his head.
"Jaali...grandma Zira and uncle Nuka are dead"
Jaali's eyes widen before filling the salty liquid of tears fall. "But how?"
Kovu looked at Vitani and the siblings pondered on what to tell him. So with a deep breath the light tan lioness told her nephew what happened with a heavy heart.
"Nuka was crushed by logs the other night and your grandmother fell from a cliff into a raging river..."
Vitani stopped at the tears that fell from the cub's eyes. But the cub took the siblings by surprise. His sad expression slowly disappeared as he glared at his father and aunt.
"No one tried to save her!"
"Kiara did but she wouldn't of let go of her hate"
Jaali growled at his father. "Do you think I'm stupid! That incapable fool you married killed grandma!"
Kovu and Vitani was stunned by Jaali's harsh words. As they starred in shock they didn't see a light grey African falcon fly from the shadows.
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In the Pride Lands just on the outskirts of the no man's land that stood on the Pride Lands's eastern borders. On those outskirts stood proudly a mountain. It wasn't a gigantic as Mount Kilimanjaro or majestic as Pride Rock or the Spirit Mountain. But some say that from the top you could see all of the Pride Lands without entering. That's where the light grey African falcon flew to, the very top of the unname mountain. Where a young dark beige lion sat with a stoic expression. The evening wind blew, lightly ruffling the young male's dark brown mane. The lion casted his blue eyes from the sky to the bird.
"What's the stitch?"
"Nothing good. He blames Kiara for Zira's death"
The lion sighed before turning and heading down the mountain. "Let's go give our report"
The falcon nodded before taking flight. Flying over the dark beige lion as he traveled through the lush green and gold grass. As the stars slowly began to twinkle in the growing dark sky.