Nala aproached her mate and sat down on the rock beside him.
"Yes, Simba?"
Simba looked at his love, "my mother tells me that you've been treating Kamaria well, not very nicely?"
Simba mentally slapped himself 'You idiot, what a king you are, you can't even ask your mate a simple
question.'
"Oh that," Nala replied, "I'm sorry Simba, I don't like her. Thank god she's getting better, I do not want her joining our pride."
"Why?"
Simba inquired, he had never seen this side of Nala before; and he didn't like it.
"Your majasties?" Both Simba and Nala wirled around to see Zazu, purched atop the tall tree that sat behind them.
"Yes?" Simba inquired
"I am sorry to interupt but on my evening rounds, I saw a group of outsiders come close to the pride lands."
"What outsiders?" Simba asked, allowing the bird to land on his head.
"I'm not sure," admitted the bird, "but I do not trust them."
"You don't trust anyone Zazu," Nala lightly chited.
"Well, I," Zazu stopped, for once deciding to ignore the queen's remark.
"Well, are they lions, hyeenas, birds, zebras......"
"Simba please!" Nala said, slightly ajitated at her husband's ramblings;
"Lions," Zazu answered, as Simba looked in the direction that he pointed in with his left wing.
"Why didn't you say so?" Simba asked as he bounded down the path of pride rock, making his loyal
servant shreek with terror at nearly being disloged from Simba's main.
*****
"Kamaria?" Nala called in to the cave after she had watched Simba run off with Zazu.
"What?" Kamaria questioned as she stood up and looked at Nala.
"Look, I'm sorry for how I've been treating you; it's just, at first I wasn't sure if I could trust you." Nala whispered in to Kamaria's ear;
"Nala, if you have questions, just ask me! Don't treat me like I'm going to tell Simba every, single, little detail about your relationship with Scar."
The two lionesses were quietly speaking on pride rock, each glancing now and again to the others that were resting behind it.
"Anyways," Kamaria said, her tone soft, "it wasn't your falt, i remember the first time you said no to him."
Nala blinked back tears
"I know," she said her voice choked.
"He said that he'd kill me if you didn't," Kamaria stopped, taking in a shalow breath.
"He held his extended claws at your throat," Nala finished.
"That was when we left," Kamaria stopped as she layed down on the hardness of the rock's smooth surface.
"And after you had," Kamaria glanced in her half sister's direction.
"Right," Nala retorted, as she lifted her head and nuzzled her younger sister.
"We'll keep this between us, it's not like anyone will find out anyways," Kamaria replied as the two smiled at one another.
******
"Who are you?"
Simba said as he crouched low to the ground, gazing at the male lion that must've been his age, give or take a couple years.
"I, am king Cuno, king of the Kani Lands, I shal be very blunt with you your majasty as to why I have come with my pride."
"My name is Simba, I thank you for your forwardness, what business brings you here?"
"Ahhh, the famous King Simba, of the Pride Lands," Cuno said, his voice held a mocking tone. Simba ignored this and stratened himself, making eye contact with Cuno."
"What do you want?"
"Oh yes, it seems that a lioness has run away from my pride, her name is Kamaria, know her?"
"Yes, my queen found her wondering and she is at our pride."
Cuno smiled, "I'd like her back."
"Why?" Simba asked, "when you exiled her?"
Cuno gasped, "ahhh Simba, it seems that sweet Kamaria has decieved you."
"What do you mean?" Simba inquired, raising his eyebrows, a bit surprised.
"Well, her and I had an agreement, a barggin if you will," Cuno began, "a barggin that she did not uphold her end of."
"What was it?" Simba inquired, eyeing the king
"Well," Cuno thought, "the barggin was, if I took in her sister's cub that she would marry my son Mattan. But, when he tried to mate with her, she refused him and ran off."
"So, you want her back so your son can rape her?"
"No, of course not!"
"Than why?"
"Surely your majasty, you must understand that as a tradition that one who says that they will marry must go through with her word."
"Hmmm, I do but was anything recorded, any wittnesses to this agreement?"
"There is, but she's also a member of your pride, I do not know her name but she is Kamaria's half sister, it was her cub I took in."
Simba sighed, "I will go back and speak with my pride."
"Fine, we'll wait here," Cuno said.
"No, you come back tomorrow, I'll have Kamaria here, along with the wittness."
"Very well," Cuno replied, starting to turn his back on Simba.
"Oh, and Cuno?" Simba inquired, "bring the cub."
With out turning back, the king nodded his head before returning back to the Kani Lands.