Love Beyond Reasons

The Great Scheme

Love Beyond Reasons

A/N: Now this is where the Outsider plot gets an extra bonus to it. Let's begin Chapter 6. Roll it!

Chapter 6

The Great Scheme

Back in the Outlands, well, much further than the cubs had explored, there was hardly any vegetation or water anywhere. What was there were a few giant castles of termite mounds, the occasional scattered bones, and dry ground. The lionesses there practically had to dig and tear apart mounds and trees for something suitable to eat.

An adolescent scrawny lion was muttering to himself as he approached a young female cub, who was his little sister. The adolescent had pale cream fur, a scraggly thin black mane, matching his tail and joints, and vermilion eyes. The cub had pale peachy fur with bangs on her head, and violet eyes. The cub was chewing on a root, trying to pull it out.

"Kovu, Kovu, Kovu." The adolescent muttered. "Scar wasn't even his father. He just took him in." Then, he had approached his sister. "Oh, hey, Vitani. Where's the little termite, Kovu? 'The Chosen One.'"

When she didn't answer him, he used a claw to slice the root away from the mound, causing her to fall onto her back suddenly. He cackled at his little prank, but Vitani was not happy.

"Nuka, where's Kovu?" She demanded, coming back to her older brother. "Did you leave him out there on his own again?"

Nuka was chewing on the root and stopped to give his sister his snarky answer. "Hey, it's every lion for himself out here." He said, scratching himself to relieve him of an itch. "The little termite's gotta learn to be on his own."

Vitani glared at him. "Mother's gonna be mad." She said. "She told you to watch him."

"Aw, who cares?" Nuka said, who was still scratching himself with either his claws or onto a dead tree. "I should've been the Chosen One. I'm the oldest, I'm the strongest, I'm the smartest-" He stopped to yelp in annoyance at all the termites that were bugging him. "These termites!"

Vitani smirked at the sight of Nuka going into a frenzy to get rid of the termites in his fur. "I could be a leader if she'd just give me a chance!" He continued to rant as he scooted on the dry ground.

His sister scoffed. "Yeah, right. Why don't you tell that to her?"

Nuka narrowed his eyes at her. "Oh, yeah? Don't think I won't."

"Oh, yeah?" Vitani asked, chuckling. "Here's your chance."

Nuka was confused by what she meant by that for a second, but then when he turned around, he saw Zira arriving with Kovu. "Oh, Mother, Mother, hi!" He went over to greet her. "Mother, I caught some field mice for your dinner. I put them by the-" But Zira just continued walking, softly growling. "Okay."

Zira dropped Kovu by Vitani, who greeted her younger brother. "Hey, Kovu. Wanna fight?" She playfully growled at him as Kovu smirked and got into a play-fighting position.

"You were supposed to be watching him!" Zira snapped at Nuka, who quickly flinched away at his mother's tone.

Kovu turned around to face her. "It's not his fault. I went off on my own." He said.

"What were you doing?" Zira demanded.

"N-Nothing." Kovu said.

"Who made us Outsiders?"

"Simba."

"Who killed Scar?"

"Simba!" Kovu repeated, falling onto his back.