A Change of Plans [PRIVATE: AC & The Whistlerify]

[AustralianChaos]

Nala also stepped forward. She was doing this not for herself, or so she could get her home back...she was doing this for Sarafina, for Simba, and for all her friends. "I'm not backing down now."

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Even though the decision was already made in his mind, Tanga mulled over everything in his head before finally standing straight, tall and proud, coming up beside his friends. "We're all in this together, then," he declared to his mother, who smiled at the lot of them, in particular her daughter. Despite Uhuru's young age, she had made made a decision with a serious nature that was beyond her years.

"Okay...once Tanga's wounds have healed up more, we can get started on this training...it will be much easier if I can train you all at once. What I also should have mentioned is that this training will improve your strength vastly...normally, you were going to wait until Simba was fully grown in about six or seven months before coming back to the Pridelands. If my training works out as planned, I can have you all ready to return home and overthrow Scar in five months, maybe six."

"Until Tanga's wounds heal, I'm sure Busara can begin teaching you the basics of healing." Kali then turned to her mate. "How soon do you think they should begin?"

[TheWhistlerify]

Busara then looked back at his mate, "I don't know much... Only some basics... If you want to rest and think about this... We can start tomorrow morning." he said and looked at the five, waiting for their response. There wasn't much he could teach them, but what he would teach them might come in handy. But he didn't need alot of time for them to learn the little that he knew. So they could start in a day or two, since Kali wouldn't start training them untill Tanga's wounds were healed enough, which gave them at least a few days to get this done.

[AustralianChaos]

Tanga liked the idea of being able to rest and think on things...now that the moment had passed, his mind was struggling to comprehend everything. "Tomorrow morning sounds good to me," he said, Nala nodding her agreement

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Kali also nodded, before turnign to the five. "If you lot don't mind, could I have another quiet word with my daughter?" she asked, posing the question mostly to Uhuru herself. Despite the fact that her daughter had laready made her decision, Kali knew that she was young, and she felt it wise to impress upon her just how hard her training could be.

[TheWhistlerify]

Seeing Simba and Marini also agreed to start in the morning, Busara smiled at them, "Okay then, tomorrow morning it is."
Simba took a glance at Uhuru as the young cub walked away with her mother. He wandered whether Uhuru knew what she was getting herself into and what made her to come to such a desicion. But she seemed serious about htis, despite the more playful side they've seen of her in the morning.

[AustralianChaos]

As Kali lead Uhuru away from the group, she started speaking. "Uhuru...are you absolutely sure you want to do this? This is not another game...this will not be fun, and you will get hurt a lot during the training. I can't afford to go easy on anyone, including you if you're still doing it...if I don't train your brother and his friends properly, they could very easily die."

"I just want to know why you're doing this, that's all...I love you, and I don't want to hurt you without knowing why you are doing this." Kali nuzzled and licked her daughter, before staring at her with a hard, searching look. She was not going to take any lies from Uhuru here, she needed to know the truth about Uhuru's decision, and would not accept anything less.

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Tanga looked up at the sun, noting that their game of hide-and-seek had passed away most of the afternoon. He leaned against Marini's shoulder, happy with the way the day had turned out, despite all the things it had thrown at them.

But now that the reintroduction of his family into his life had settled down a little, Tanga's thoughts turned to his moment in the grass with Marini. He had professed his love for her in such a complete, honest way that he had all but taken her as his mate already. But that idea alone left a confused series of questions flowing through his mind. He was still young...but growing up fast, and Tanga knew that he wanted to, when the time was right, take Marini as his life mate. And now...now he had a parent he could talk to for advice.

But setting aside his mild troubles for now, Tanga just relaxed for a moment, purring as he settled his head in Marini's shoulder, oblivious to any eyes that might be on him in that moment.

[TheWhistlerify]

Uhuru listened to her mother before speaking up. "I'm sure about this mom." she said, "For my brother." she said with complete honesty. Now that she found out about Tanga, she felt like she had to help him and his friends.

Marini also purred slightly as Tanga settled his head on her shoulder. She looked at him and smiled to herself at how everything turned out. At first this day seemed like a terrible one with his parents rejecting him again, but now everything seemed just perfect. She also enjoyed the fact that Tanga didn't mind if anyone was watching them.

[AustralianChaos]

Kali kept her hard look. "Why for Tanga?" she asked. "I mean, I understand that he's your brother...but we have only just met him, and I don't understand why you would go through what I'm going to put you through for him."

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Nala smiled as she watched Tanga and Marini, looking completely comfortable in each other's embrace. "Look at them," she said, turning her attention to Simba. "They look complete with each other, don't you think? Neither of them seem completely happy when they aren't together like this." Her smiled then became thoughtful as he ran her muzzle through Simba's mane herself. "I wonder if we'll ever be like that one day...or if we already are," she added, realising her action of nestling her head in Simba's half-formed mane was a pretty close mimickery of Tanga and Marini's close embrace...even if it wasn't quite so intimate.

[TheWhistlerify]

"Because I can help, and I want to help." Uhuru said, picking on her mother's hard look, "Mom, if you worry about me, and don't want me to do this then I wont, okay?" she said, posing it more like a statement than a question, trying to see whether that was the reason for her mother's behaviour.

Simba also smiled as he looked at Tanga and Marini, who seemed just happy whenever they were with each other. He began wandering whether he and Nala will ever be that way when she posed that question herself. "I don't know..." he said, smiling and nuzzling her back, "I guess time will tell."

[AustralianChaos]

Kali smiled as Uhuru questioned whether she was worried. "No...it's your choice Uhuru, I just wanted to make sure that you knew what you were getting into, that's all...you're still young, and I will be pushing you as hard as all the others. Like I said, this is not going to be fun at all."

"But I'm proud of you for choosing to do this...and I'm sure you'll become a brilliant lioness when you're older. And I know I left Tanga behind once, but I'm glad he's back, and I'm sure the two of you will get along really well."

She then looked back to where the others were gathered, noticing the way Tanga and Marini were sitting veryclose to each other, confirming in her eyes that the two of them had a relationship far, far beyond any normal friendship. "Although you may have to fight to get his attention, sweetie...he seems very close to that lioness...Marini."

[TheWhistlerify]

Uhuru also looked at Marini and Tanga, trying not to throw up as she saw them together. "Yeah, she's his girlfriend." she said and giggled, "But she's very nice."