The first part of this chapter is pretty empty on details because I felt they weren't necessary. I mean, most of it would have been covering every little detail of SP, and I figure no one wants to read the movie. The only reason the beginning part is included is for setup. The bulk of this story occurs during the events of SP, so that was kinda necessary. I wrote this for fun because I got tired of working on the three other fic projects I have. And though I do like the Kiara X Vitani pairing, my official me-canon does not involve these two being a couple. I just wanted to write something like this cos there's not much of these two out there.
I will add more parts to it, but for now, this is it. So, hope you enjoy if you actually read it.
Welp, you have been warned. Continue on only if you think you can handle me messing with the movie! (Don't worry, the events that actually happen will happen the way they do in the film. Just with a different spin on them.)
Part I Secret Rendezvous: show
(The name of this part and the whole fic comes from the song, "Secret Rendezvous" by Karyn White.)
It wasn't the first time Kiara had slipped away from her father's incompetent babysitters. She grinned as she slipped away, eager to meet the cub she'd met the other time. She wasn't supposed to go so far out, as she'd met the cub on the edge of the Outlands, and those lions were supposedly dangerous, but she knew she could get away and have a little fun. When she didn't see her new friend, she continued on, trotting across the log that crossed the river.
As per usual, she tripped due to not paying attention and fell, collided into another entity, and they both ended up sprawled out in the dust. She looked up and saw a growling Outlander cub, dark and male. It wasn't him she'd come out here to meet. She backed away as he demanded to know who she was. At first she had been afraid, but during their exchange, she became curious. She followed him onto what they'd mistaken for rock, only to discover it was actually crocodiles.
After a panicky escape they'd readied to play in the Pridelands, the young princess almost having forgotten the girl she'd come to see. She remembered her only when their parents had arrived and after snarling at each other were carrying them away. As Kiara waved good-bye to the cub she now knew was called Kovu, she remembered she hadn't found Vitani this day.
And now that she'd been caught, her father likely wouldn't leave her with only Timon and Pumbaa anymore, and she'd probably not get to see either of the Outland cubs again.
And yet, to her surprise, he did sometimes leave her in just the care of his old friends. So, as she grew, she was sometimes able to sneak away. She never saw Kovu anymore, but she did meet Vitani on a few occasions. When she asked the other girl about Kovu, all Vitani would say was that he was busy training, but she never said what for.
As time went on, Kiara grew into an adolescent, her body taking on more of its adult shape. It was a few days before she'd be doing her solo hunt, and she lay in the back of the den on Pride Rock, swishing her tail in agitation as the warthog and meerkat ran about prattling on about something she cared little about. The young lioness rose on her paws, tired of dealing with this, and trotted over to the den's exit. The other lionesses were out hunting, King Simba was nowhere to be seen, and only Timon and Pumbaa were around.
It would be easy for her to sneak away and maybe meet her friend.
She glanced back over her shoulder at Timon and Pumbaa, smiling sweetly and innocently at the two.
"Could you two excuse me for a minute? I'm thirsty, and I need to... er... go."
"Of course Princess. We'll give you a minute," Timon said quickly before turning back to Pumbaa and the discussion they were having.
Kiara turned back to the grasslands and grinned smugly. These two were too easy to get away from. She bounded down Pride Rock and made her way not to the waterhole, but towards the Shadowlands. The Elephant Graveyard was almost always abandoned except for vultures these days. Kiara's pridesisters never went there, and neither did the lionesses from the Outland pride. So Kiara and Vitani had agreed that meeting here was good, especially since it was right in between their territories.
The princess didn't encounter anyone of her father's pride on her way, and before she knew it, she was in a barren land surrounded by the skulls and skeletons of giants. She found her way over to some of the geysers and laid down to wait and see if her friend would arrive. She was growing tired of waiting, and was ready to go back to the Pridelands before her father returned when she was suddenly pounced upon.
The princess rolled around, struggling with her assailant until the two lay sprawled out in the bones a little ways apart. She looked up into purpley-blue eyes on a head topped with a tuft of fur. A smile crawled up her face. Vitani had arrived.
"Hi," she said, laughing at their tussle, "You surprised me."
"You never pay attention to your surroundings, Princess," Vitani laughed, rolling over next to the Pridelander and stretching a bit. Kiara narrowed her eyes and looked away as her friend continued, "I'd have thought after all this time it's been since we last met that you'd have learned."
"It's not exactly my fault the lionesses won't teach me," the princess huffed.
"They won't?"
"No. Father wants me to be safe, so he's not let them teach me yet. There's only a few days until my solo hunt and I don't know how to hunt at all," she complained.
"He doesn't want his little girl to grow up," Vitani teased.
"Oh shut up. I'll succeed on my own," Kiara said defiantly.
"Mm, I admire your spirit, but how are you going to pull that off?" her friend asked. Kiara pawed at the ground, pushing a small bone around. A geyser hissed and erupted behind them.
"I don't know," the Pridelander admitted. Her face fell and she just stared at the dirt. What was she going to do? She only knew the basicsㅡ predator hides, then jumps out at the prey and chases it down. Was that all there was to it? Could she manage like that?
Suddenly, Vitani's head was under Kiara's pressing close in a very comforting way she'd not expected from the Outlander. Her heart jumped.
"Don't worry about it, you'll do fine," Vitani said, wishing that she didn't know otherwise. Wishing that she wasn't going to have to help set a fire that could potentially kill the princess.
"You think so?" Kiara asked.
"Yeah. Hey, let's not worry about that right now," the Outlander said, licking the princess's cheek and leaping to her feet. She smiled back at Kiara. The princess rose, smiling just a little herself. She was still surprised by Vitani's actions and her heart was all aflutter. She darted past Vitani and began just running through the graveyard. The slimmer lioness caught up to her quickly, and then passed her, taking the lead.
The two ran on for a long time, long after it was dark, until Vitani stopped on the edge of a ledge and Kiara ran into her, knocking them both off and into a waterhole. Laughing, they began splashing water at one another until they were thoroughly soaked from head to tail. Dripping wet, the teen lionesses rose out of the pond and collapsed in a heap atop one another.
Kiara turned her head to speak to Vitani, but paused when she realized that their muzzles were mere ant lengths apart. She felt her face heating up, and her heart raced. She laughed nervously and wriggled away from the other lioness before shaking the water out of her fur.
Vitani rolled over so as to avoid looking at the Pridelander. What was she doing? She couldn't indulge her desires, even if it seemed they mirrored Kiara's. In a few days, she'd help Nuka lay the fire that would ruin Kiara's hunt, and then Kovu would be spending his time trying to win the princess's heart so that he could get close enough to kill Simba and take over. Vitani would never have a chance to talk to this girl anymore.
She wanted to warn her, wanted to abort the plan, but how? She didn't know. But this could be her last chance to win Kiara's heart for herself, so she decided to stop moping. Maybe it was stupid, but if for just one night she could be blissfully with Kiara, it would be worth her while, even if she was never able to repeat the experience.
She rose and moved over to the still nervous Kiara, leaning up against her back and rubbing her head against the Pridelander's affectionately. She let a low rumbling purr begin to emanate from her body as she wrapped her forelegs around the princess.
"Don't pretend you don't like this," she whispered in Kiara's ear. The other lioness gasped and turned her head to look Vitani in the eyes. The Outlander was eyeing her seductively at this point, and Kiara couldn't deny that she was interested. She smiled a bit, a nervous smile, as Vitani pressed her snout against Kiara's and let her tongue slip out onto the other girl's lips. Kiara's mouth opened just slightly so her tongue could meet Vitani's. After a moment, the two moved their heads back and retracted their tongues into their mouths. Vitani removed her forelegs from around Kiara and backed away a few steps.
"Never forget Kiara, no matter what happens, never forget that I care for you," Vitani said, a tear rolling down her cheek. Kiara nuzzled her, wondering how this had happened. Before this day, she'd never thought she might feel this way for a lioness. She didn't want to ever leave. She just wanted to be close to the rough girl who'd been her secret friend for years.
"I won't ever forget it, Vitani. And don't you forget that I care for you, too," the princess assured her. The two moved close together, Kiara's head under Vitani's chin, their paws atop one another's for a long moment, just being there together. Silent tears kept falling down Vitani's cheeks as she thought of the things that were to transpire soon, as she thought of this being her only night with the one she loved.
Suddenly, Kiara's ears pricked up and she leaned back away from the other lioness.
"Oh no.." she mumbled, "Daddy's coming. Quick! Hide! Get out of here before he hurts you!"
Vitani's heart clenched. Her time was up. She leaned forward to give the princess a final lick on the cheek before springing into the water again to mask her scent and then speeding away. Until now, she'd not even noticed that they'd ended up back in the Pridelands again. How stupid of her to pay so little attention!
"Kiara there you are!" Simba roared as he reached his daughter, the princess's eyes moving to him instead of continuing to watch VItani's retreat.
"Calm down, nothing bad happened to me, I'm ok," she said, rolling her eyes.
"That doesn't matter, you left without even telling me! You were supposed to stay at Pride Rock while the lionesses were hunting!"
"In case you didn't notice, Daddy, I am a lioness! And in a few days' time, I'll prove it to you when I successfully complete my first hunt!" she snapped back.
"Until then you are my little girl, and you will do as I say. Now get back to Pride Rock," Simba said harshly. Then in a more gentle tone, "I'm only trying to look out for you."
"Well I don't need looking out for," Kiara snarled, storming away from him and sprinting back towards Pride Rock. How dare he interrupt her rendezvous like that! How dare he always treat her like a little cub!
"I'm not a cub anymore!" she shouted back at him angrily.
-
As she returned to the termite mounds, Vitani approached her mother in an attempt to protect and keep her love. She had an idea that might work, though it was unlikely. She had to do what she could to make Zira reconsider and come up with another plan.
"Mother," she said as she approached, "I was in the Pridelands just now, spying on Simba and his pride..."
"Were you spotted?" Zira demanded, her eyes wide and nostrils flared, but her voice low as Kovu slept nearby.
"No. Of course I wasn't," Vitani snapped haughtily, "But I saw something I should report. I don't think your plan is going to work."
"What do you mean, it has to work!"
"I mean... I don't think Kiara likes lions. She seems to be interested in... er... lionesses."
Zira laughed, "Is that it? Kovu can still make friends with her, he can still be her best friend and use that to get close to her and her father. This changes nothing."
Vitani's heart sank. There was nothing else she could do for now. She'd just have to let her love go... or think of another way to keep her if she could.
"I guess I didn't think about that. Goodnight Mother," she said quietly. She made her way to the place where she usually slept and laid down, her heart breaking as she tried to only think of the good times she'd had this night and sleep. As she lie there, another tear rolled unbidden down her cheek.
It wasn't the first time Kiara had slipped away from her father's incompetent babysitters. She grinned as she slipped away, eager to meet the cub she'd met the other time. She wasn't supposed to go so far out, as she'd met the cub on the edge of the Outlands, and those lions were supposedly dangerous, but she knew she could get away and have a little fun. When she didn't see her new friend, she continued on, trotting across the log that crossed the river.
As per usual, she tripped due to not paying attention and fell, collided into another entity, and they both ended up sprawled out in the dust. She looked up and saw a growling Outlander cub, dark and male. It wasn't him she'd come out here to meet. She backed away as he demanded to know who she was. At first she had been afraid, but during their exchange, she became curious. She followed him onto what they'd mistaken for rock, only to discover it was actually crocodiles.
After a panicky escape they'd readied to play in the Pridelands, the young princess almost having forgotten the girl she'd come to see. She remembered her only when their parents had arrived and after snarling at each other were carrying them away. As Kiara waved good-bye to the cub she now knew was called Kovu, she remembered she hadn't found Vitani this day.
And now that she'd been caught, her father likely wouldn't leave her with only Timon and Pumbaa anymore, and she'd probably not get to see either of the Outland cubs again.
And yet, to her surprise, he did sometimes leave her in just the care of his old friends. So, as she grew, she was sometimes able to sneak away. She never saw Kovu anymore, but she did meet Vitani on a few occasions. When she asked the other girl about Kovu, all Vitani would say was that he was busy training, but she never said what for.
As time went on, Kiara grew into an adolescent, her body taking on more of its adult shape. It was a few days before she'd be doing her solo hunt, and she lay in the back of the den on Pride Rock, swishing her tail in agitation as the warthog and meerkat ran about prattling on about something she cared little about. The young lioness rose on her paws, tired of dealing with this, and trotted over to the den's exit. The other lionesses were out hunting, King Simba was nowhere to be seen, and only Timon and Pumbaa were around.
It would be easy for her to sneak away and maybe meet her friend.
She glanced back over her shoulder at Timon and Pumbaa, smiling sweetly and innocently at the two.
"Could you two excuse me for a minute? I'm thirsty, and I need to... er... go."
"Of course Princess. We'll give you a minute," Timon said quickly before turning back to Pumbaa and the discussion they were having.
Kiara turned back to the grasslands and grinned smugly. These two were too easy to get away from. She bounded down Pride Rock and made her way not to the waterhole, but towards the Shadowlands. The Elephant Graveyard was almost always abandoned except for vultures these days. Kiara's pridesisters never went there, and neither did the lionesses from the Outland pride. So Kiara and Vitani had agreed that meeting here was good, especially since it was right in between their territories.
The princess didn't encounter anyone of her father's pride on her way, and before she knew it, she was in a barren land surrounded by the skulls and skeletons of giants. She found her way over to some of the geysers and laid down to wait and see if her friend would arrive. She was growing tired of waiting, and was ready to go back to the Pridelands before her father returned when she was suddenly pounced upon.
The princess rolled around, struggling with her assailant until the two lay sprawled out in the bones a little ways apart. She looked up into purpley-blue eyes on a head topped with a tuft of fur. A smile crawled up her face. Vitani had arrived.
"Hi," she said, laughing at their tussle, "You surprised me."
"You never pay attention to your surroundings, Princess," Vitani laughed, rolling over next to the Pridelander and stretching a bit. Kiara narrowed her eyes and looked away as her friend continued, "I'd have thought after all this time it's been since we last met that you'd have learned."
"It's not exactly my fault the lionesses won't teach me," the princess huffed.
"They won't?"
"No. Father wants me to be safe, so he's not let them teach me yet. There's only a few days until my solo hunt and I don't know how to hunt at all," she complained.
"He doesn't want his little girl to grow up," Vitani teased.
"Oh shut up. I'll succeed on my own," Kiara said defiantly.
"Mm, I admire your spirit, but how are you going to pull that off?" her friend asked. Kiara pawed at the ground, pushing a small bone around. A geyser hissed and erupted behind them.
"I don't know," the Pridelander admitted. Her face fell and she just stared at the dirt. What was she going to do? She only knew the basicsㅡ predator hides, then jumps out at the prey and chases it down. Was that all there was to it? Could she manage like that?
Suddenly, Vitani's head was under Kiara's pressing close in a very comforting way she'd not expected from the Outlander. Her heart jumped.
"Don't worry about it, you'll do fine," Vitani said, wishing that she didn't know otherwise. Wishing that she wasn't going to have to help set a fire that could potentially kill the princess.
"You think so?" Kiara asked.
"Yeah. Hey, let's not worry about that right now," the Outlander said, licking the princess's cheek and leaping to her feet. She smiled back at Kiara. The princess rose, smiling just a little herself. She was still surprised by Vitani's actions and her heart was all aflutter. She darted past Vitani and began just running through the graveyard. The slimmer lioness caught up to her quickly, and then passed her, taking the lead.
The two ran on for a long time, long after it was dark, until Vitani stopped on the edge of a ledge and Kiara ran into her, knocking them both off and into a waterhole. Laughing, they began splashing water at one another until they were thoroughly soaked from head to tail. Dripping wet, the teen lionesses rose out of the pond and collapsed in a heap atop one another.
Kiara turned her head to speak to Vitani, but paused when she realized that their muzzles were mere ant lengths apart. She felt her face heating up, and her heart raced. She laughed nervously and wriggled away from the other lioness before shaking the water out of her fur.
Vitani rolled over so as to avoid looking at the Pridelander. What was she doing? She couldn't indulge her desires, even if it seemed they mirrored Kiara's. In a few days, she'd help Nuka lay the fire that would ruin Kiara's hunt, and then Kovu would be spending his time trying to win the princess's heart so that he could get close enough to kill Simba and take over. Vitani would never have a chance to talk to this girl anymore.
She wanted to warn her, wanted to abort the plan, but how? She didn't know. But this could be her last chance to win Kiara's heart for herself, so she decided to stop moping. Maybe it was stupid, but if for just one night she could be blissfully with Kiara, it would be worth her while, even if she was never able to repeat the experience.
She rose and moved over to the still nervous Kiara, leaning up against her back and rubbing her head against the Pridelander's affectionately. She let a low rumbling purr begin to emanate from her body as she wrapped her forelegs around the princess.
"Don't pretend you don't like this," she whispered in Kiara's ear. The other lioness gasped and turned her head to look Vitani in the eyes. The Outlander was eyeing her seductively at this point, and Kiara couldn't deny that she was interested. She smiled a bit, a nervous smile, as Vitani pressed her snout against Kiara's and let her tongue slip out onto the other girl's lips. Kiara's mouth opened just slightly so her tongue could meet Vitani's. After a moment, the two moved their heads back and retracted their tongues into their mouths. Vitani removed her forelegs from around Kiara and backed away a few steps.
"Never forget Kiara, no matter what happens, never forget that I care for you," Vitani said, a tear rolling down her cheek. Kiara nuzzled her, wondering how this had happened. Before this day, she'd never thought she might feel this way for a lioness. She didn't want to ever leave. She just wanted to be close to the rough girl who'd been her secret friend for years.
"I won't ever forget it, Vitani. And don't you forget that I care for you, too," the princess assured her. The two moved close together, Kiara's head under Vitani's chin, their paws atop one another's for a long moment, just being there together. Silent tears kept falling down Vitani's cheeks as she thought of the things that were to transpire soon, as she thought of this being her only night with the one she loved.
Suddenly, Kiara's ears pricked up and she leaned back away from the other lioness.
"Oh no.." she mumbled, "Daddy's coming. Quick! Hide! Get out of here before he hurts you!"
Vitani's heart clenched. Her time was up. She leaned forward to give the princess a final lick on the cheek before springing into the water again to mask her scent and then speeding away. Until now, she'd not even noticed that they'd ended up back in the Pridelands again. How stupid of her to pay so little attention!
"Kiara there you are!" Simba roared as he reached his daughter, the princess's eyes moving to him instead of continuing to watch VItani's retreat.
"Calm down, nothing bad happened to me, I'm ok," she said, rolling her eyes.
"That doesn't matter, you left without even telling me! You were supposed to stay at Pride Rock while the lionesses were hunting!"
"In case you didn't notice, Daddy, I am a lioness! And in a few days' time, I'll prove it to you when I successfully complete my first hunt!" she snapped back.
"Until then you are my little girl, and you will do as I say. Now get back to Pride Rock," Simba said harshly. Then in a more gentle tone, "I'm only trying to look out for you."
"Well I don't need looking out for," Kiara snarled, storming away from him and sprinting back towards Pride Rock. How dare he interrupt her rendezvous like that! How dare he always treat her like a little cub!
"I'm not a cub anymore!" she shouted back at him angrily.
-
As she returned to the termite mounds, Vitani approached her mother in an attempt to protect and keep her love. She had an idea that might work, though it was unlikely. She had to do what she could to make Zira reconsider and come up with another plan.
"Mother," she said as she approached, "I was in the Pridelands just now, spying on Simba and his pride..."
"Were you spotted?" Zira demanded, her eyes wide and nostrils flared, but her voice low as Kovu slept nearby.
"No. Of course I wasn't," Vitani snapped haughtily, "But I saw something I should report. I don't think your plan is going to work."
"What do you mean, it has to work!"
"I mean... I don't think Kiara likes lions. She seems to be interested in... er... lionesses."
Zira laughed, "Is that it? Kovu can still make friends with her, he can still be her best friend and use that to get close to her and her father. This changes nothing."
Vitani's heart sank. There was nothing else she could do for now. She'd just have to let her love go... or think of another way to keep her if she could.
"I guess I didn't think about that. Goodnight Mother," she said quietly. She made her way to the place where she usually slept and laid down, her heart breaking as she tried to only think of the good times she'd had this night and sleep. As she lie there, another tear rolled unbidden down her cheek.
If so can you give me the links to them. 
