...He continued to eat heartily, lowering his intake somewhat, but still perhaps not to quite the level he should have given the significant reduction in the amount of exercise he was now doing. He was hardly sedentary of course, as well as beginning to learn from Simba of the duties of a king, he spend as much time as he could helping Kiara to refine her hunting strategies, but these weren't quite rigorous enough to deal with the number of calories he was still taking in.
Kovu was hardly aware of the fact that though the increase in his girth had slowed somewhat, it was still happening, there always seemed to be some distraction or crisis taking up most of his waking moments. Despite his own ignorance though, the changes didn't go unnoticed, indeed there was hardly a lioness in the pride who wasn't by now aware of the prince's gains, though not quite all of them yet had realised that though many of the former Outlanders had put on healthy volumes of flesh themselves in the moons since the reunification of the pride, none had gained quite as much comparatively as the prince had, the tuck up behind his ribs was now virtually non-existent.
There was some debate over these developments. Some of the lionesses (mostly former Outlanders) felt that the prince's gain was unbecoming, and only verified their own thoughts that though Zira had been wrong about the Pridelanders', that they were lazy and fat. Many of the others though, felt that Kovu's gain was not only quite acceptable, but indeed desirable, making him look more regal and less roguish. There were a few others still that found that their opinions lay somewhere between the two groups, happy to accept that Kovu did indeed look like a proper royal lion now, but that things were starting to go a bit too far. For all the debate though, none of them ever mentioned it to the young, dark lion, at least directly.
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"Enjoying yourselves there, lovebirds," Vitani asked, as she approached the rock ledge, not far from Pride Rock where Kiara and Kovu were basking, happily alone until now.
"Yes we were in fact," Kovu said, "what's up?"
"Does anything have to be up for me to come and visit my brother and his mate," Vitani asked.
"No," Kovu said, "but it's the only time you ever do come to see me."
There was a moments' silence, then Vitani asked, slightly irritably, "you haven't seen Kipaku or Chekua around at all have you?"
"No," Kovu replied, "why, they've gone missing again?"
"Yes," Vitani replied, through clenched teeth, "I know some of the others are okay with their not turning up to hunts very often, but I can't stand that sort of thing, as I'm sure you well know."
Kovu nodded, "I'm quite aware of your, dedication Vitani," Kovu said, a slight smile playing across his lips, "you've never quite figured out how to relax and let time pass by have you?"
Vitani frown, "let time go by, you mean, waste time, deliberately?"
"Quite," Kovu said, "and if I see either of those two around I'll let them know you're not happy with them."
"Thanks," Vitani said, "well I'm off then."
"Well good luck then," Kovu said, "I hope you enjoy yourself out there."
"Oh don't worry, I'll enjoy it bro'," Vitani said, "as much as you enjoy the results."
Kovu was to surprised for a moment to make a reply, and by the time he'd got his thoughts together, Vitani had gone. Puzzled, he turned to Kiara, "did that make any sense to you, I think she was taunting me, but I can't figure out why."
"Oh I'm sure it was nothing," Kiara said breezily, "just forget it."
"Okay, sure," Kovu said, and tried to force it to the back of his mind, but it kept threatening to spring back, and so to distract himself, he asked, "so what do you want to do?"
"Hmm," Kiara said, "wha-oh, um, why don't we..."
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