#disneysmooch

“Hmph.”

He watched Bambi nervously walk away, but... maybe this was an opportune chance to mess with him a little again. After finding out that he believed him, Ronno felt a little less... aggressive about the whole situation, but that didn’t mean he thought picking on Bambi was any less fun.

So he waited for the young Prince to get comfortable, smirked, and went prancing over before kneeling right next to him and yelling,

@disneysmooch

So much for being sneaky.

Up until that day, Kovu had been doing a fairly good job of going between the outlands and the Pride Lands without being caught. How his mother had continually failed to notice was a bit beyond him, but Kovu imagined she was a bit preoccupied as of late. The same could apply to Nuka. Either that or, the more likely conclusion there, was that his older brother just didn’t care. The point remained that Kovu had been able to sneak about and see what Kiara had been up to from a safe distance. However, he’d slipped up. That day, Kovu had felt confident. He hadn’t needed to go in with a mud disguise, he thought, and that was where he’d made his mistake. As he emerged from the tall grass, his eyes locked with those of someone he knew shouldn’t see him.

In a heartbeat, Kovu tried to sneak back into the grass as though nothing had happened. He scrambled backward, eyes wide the whole while, and he managed to stumble a bit. This was the queen of the Pride Lands he was about to deal with. While Nala did seem a fair bit more lenient than Simba, at least in Kovu’s memory, he still knew that she might not be pleased to see him.

“Wait, wait,” Kovu said. His voice shook despite his best efforts to keep it even. Evidently, the confidence he had come in with had vanished quite quickly.

“Before you say anything, I’m not here because my mother sent me. I-I just wanted to see Kiara...”