Brother Bear.

❛  i do appreciate you helping me.  ❜ ❛  i do feel at home when i'm with you.  ❜ ❛  i do hope you know how loved you are.  ❜ ❛  i do love being yours.  ❜ ❛  i do love the way you say my name.  ❜ ❛  i do love you a little more than i realized.  ❜ ❛  i do plan on being there for you always.  ❜ ❛  i do think about you more than i probably should.  ❜ ❛  i do want to keep making memories with you.  ❜ ❛  i do want to spend more time with you.  ❜ ❛  do you care about me too?  ❜ ❛  do you know how cute you are?  ❜ ❛  do you mind if i borrow your sweater?  ❜ ❛  do you mind if i sit with you?  ❜ ❛  do you need a helping hand with that?  ❜ ❛  do you need me to do something?  ❜ ❛  do you need some help?  ❜ ❛  do you want me to kiss it better?  ❜ ❛  do you want me to stay until you fall asleep?  ❜ ❛  do you want me to stay?  ❜ ❛  do you want me to walk you home?  ❜ ❛  do you want to dance with me?  ❜ ❛  do you want to go out with me?  ❜ ❛  do you want to hold my hand?  ❜ ❛  do you want to kiss me?  ❜ ❛  you do always know how to cheer me up.  ❜ ❛  you do brighten up the whole room.  ❜ ❛  you do deserve to be taken care of, too.  ❜ ❛  you do give the best hugs.  ❜ ❛  you do have a way of making ordinary things feel special.  ❜ ❛  you do know how much i care about you, right?  ❜ ❛  you do look cute when you're sleepy.  ❜ ❛  you do look perfect in my arms.  ❜ ❛  you do look very beautiful today.  ❜ ❛  you do look very cozy like that.  ❜ ❛  you do make everything feel easier.  ❜ ❛  you do make me feel like i'm exactly where i'm supposed to be.  ❜ ❛  you do make me feel safe.  ❜ ❛  you do make me smile without even trying.  ❜ ❛  you do make my heart feel very full.  ❜

Anyway, I’ll accept up to 10 of these, if enough requests come in! If not, I’ll do some myself, too; these kinds of things are fun! :)

Just use this as an example: H3.

“…yyyyyyeah,” he mumbled through a sigh he hoped didn’t sound too grumpy. Not that Birch and Spruce would know if it did.

Kenai smiled, but grit his teeth at Birch’s ‘attack’ on his foreleg. Even for a tiny little thing, he was still a bear, and his claws were sharp! Kenai’s fur was in its summer stage, so his legs weren’t as protected by thick, layered fur.

He stepped back, shaking his paw. The sloppy stuff dripped from his claws, but it wasn’t like mud was the WORST thing to have on you.

Weaving through the waves - submitted by th4tc4t

"listen here you little shit"

“…yyyyyyeah,” he mumbled through a sigh he hoped didn’t sound too grumpy. Not that Birch and Spruce would know if it did.

Verse Two- The Bear Boy. Under the cut for length.

This was going to be… absolutely terrifying.

Going from a small-town Alaskan school that taught kids from preschool to senior year to a giant school only for high schoolers was enough to make the little hairs on the back of Kenai’s neck stand up.

Denahi, his sixteen-year-old brother (well, almost 17), seemed pretty indifferent, if not a little grumpy; he had expressed to their parents, Miki and Tuktu, that he hadn’t wanted to move at all, but had gotten used to it… a little since then.

They’d only been in Toronto for four months, but the Tungilik family had settled in well, despite the boys’ reservations. And now it was September, the month the fourteen-year-old had been dreading/fearing/all of the above.

"Oh no, that's okay! Really!" Mei assured him, bending down to pick up the rest of her books. She offered a friendly smile as she took the book he had picked up from him. "I can be like, such a klutz myself. Especially when I get a little too excited."

As she stood up, she brightened. "Yep! I'm a freshman too. My name's Meilin Lee. But everyone calls my Mei." She looked down at her own schedule, noting that it was the same location. Mei, on the other hand, was looking forward to the assembly. It was the first step to her high school experience!

He ran a hand through his black hair, blowing out through his mouth. “Man, I’m really… not good at this, am I?” he joked with a genuine wince. “I’m not used to schools this big, and, um, so many kids. I came from Alaska, just a few months ago. My old school was really small back there- but this place almost looks like some kind of… I dunno, college campus or something!”

Kenai found that, slowly, he was beginning to relax. Having Mei around, despite having just met her, made him feel a little more at ease.

He took to looking about as Sarabi waded into the water.

Koda laughed gleefully as Bucky splashed him, and then glided the side of his paw quickly across the surface to spray his friend with a ‘wave’.

The cub’s ears lifted when he saw Sarabi, and he beamed. “Woah! Cool!! I didn’t think sabers liked water! You must be pretty brave if you’re all th’ way over here!”

His drippy cheek fur sent little drops Sarabi’s way as his head whirled around to look at Bucky. “That would make us look kinda weird… but it would be super good for catchin’ salmon!” Koda laughed. “Kenai could use teeth like that! He’s not that good at fishin’ yet.”

Kenai, having heard those faint words from his little brother, startled and called, “Koda! Maybe y-you could, uh, teach her how to fish?!”

His voice had a nervous edge to it that Koda didn’t recognize, so it disregarded it as an innocent suggestion. He hadn’t realized what he’d said. “Oh, yeah!! C’mon, Sarabi!”

He started to swim over to the shore near Kenai, nodding for the other cubs to follow him.

"A-actually," Sarabi started at the commentary on her fangs brightly, "Us sabertooths usually use our big teeth so we can catch big food, like... Like pigs, or deer! I never caught anything that big, but that's what they're for. Maybe it could work on big fish, though ..." She trailed off thoughtfully, trying to recall how large salmon could get. She giggled at the good-natured teasing on Kenai's skills, forgetting the thought quickly as she scampered after the two.

"You don't think I look weird, do you?" She asked the cubs with a head tilt.

The brown cub looked sideways, hearing the splash of a fish tail against the surface of the water. When he looked back, his dark eyes were sparkly, it seemed, and wide.

“Hey, I got an idea!” Koda announced, loudly enough for Kenai to hear and chuckle at. “Bucky, we gotta help S’rabi use her teeth forrrr… um, what’s that word again? Man, I just had it- OH, spearing! Kenai taught me that word! It’s like this…”

He demonstrated using two of his claws to plunge into the ripples around him, then lifted his paw, holding the claws together, and mimicked eating a fish to finish his ‘lesson’.

“But how we usually do it is by that lil’ waterfall thing over there! The salmon hop out, an’ then we grab ‘em, fast as we can!!” The grizzly pointed with a paw at one of the feline’s fangs. “It’ll be real easy for you! I bet it won’t even take more than three tries! C’mon!”

He took off in the shallowest parts towards the mini-falls. Kenai, meanwhile, felt an immediate sense of anxiety, having seen the strange looks the other bears gave Sarabi… so he got up and followed the trio, keeping his ears up so he could portray himself as more relaxed than he really was.