by KiarasMate » January 13th, 2010, 12:21 pm
Happy to be able to spend more quality time with his beloved mate and seeing how they were pretty much alone, aside from the golden furred princess who seemed content with her meal a little ways off, Kopa smiled warmly as he watched Rahina roll onto her back, her bulging belly slightly revealing the row of pink teats that seemed to be bursting at the seems with milk, causing him to blush slightly as her fore paws came in contact with his in a playful manner. Rising to his paws, Kopa slowly made his way over to where his precious lioness was laying, positioning himself so that he was sitting atop her hind quarters but not crushing her tummy region, as he didn’t want to potentially harm the growing life inside of it. Resting his fore paws on either side of her stomach, Kopa smiled down at her as his ears flicked upon hearing the question she posed to him.
A bit reluctant to respond at first as he sat there, Kopa wasn’t expecting Rahina to bring up the subject she just had. It wasn’t as though he had been avoiding the question, but there had been a small part of him that had hoped she would have forgotten about said subject. Still, realizing that they were finally on good terms with one another again and skirting around the issue would only raise his mate’s suspicions, which in turn, would lead to more unwanted drama, Kopa came clean with the details as he moved off of her hind quarters and repositioned himself so that he was now sitting next to her upper half so he could speak to her more easily without having to use a raised tone and potentially alert Kiara to what he was about to say.
”Well, he said a lot of things actually Hina and it’s still a bit confusing to me even, but from what I understood of things is, that if he finds out that I really am his and Nala’s long lost son, then I will inherit his kingdom when it’s his time to step down. That might sound nice, but that would mean that Kovu, who I’ve actually became friends with it seems, would lose his title and probably would hate me for it.”
Looking down at the ground for a moment before returning his gaze to his beloved mate, Kopa sighed softly as he looked deep into her alluring, onyx eyes, searching for a bit of reassurance as he resumed speaking.
”The thing is my precious, I don’t want to be ruler of these lands, but it’s apparently royal protocol. I don’t know what that means really but what I do know is that my life would change, and I don’t want that. I want to be with you only and I want our oasis home back.”
The last words seemed to slip out of Kopa’s muzzle by mistake but there was a lot of truth to them. Even though life was peaceful for them here in The Pride lands, deep down, Kopa knew that both himself and Rahina secretly longed for their former home. Unsure of what else to say by this point however, Kopa fell silent as one of his fore paws shuffled nervously against the floor of the den as he waited for his mate to speak upon what he had just informed her about.