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Usufii pranced a good way in past the boundaries. His future was to be a guard, may as well get started. He had a solemn look on his face. Any stupid-mugged pridelanders that dared come near here would be greeted by the wrong lion, that was for sure! He was by the Prideland borders and eventually sat down, facing those dreaded lands that he'd lived in for some time in his life. All he remembered was... How much dumber people were there. At least the Outlanders he knew weren't stupid... for the most part. His tan tail-tip flicked irritatedly at the memories.

Kadaj was out that morning, he had been looking for new game while holding his post at the end of the lands as well, and he was now old enough to have the title of guard and hunter. His skull-mask and bone ware cluttered as he shifted himself up from his resting place and yawned widly, his pale eyes narrowing.

He turned and frowned to himself, spotting a little one not too far. He sided with himself and moved closer, speaking.

“Tiny one, why are you so far away from the pride? Does your mother know?”

Usu's ear flicked in surprise, though when he turned around, his posture relaxed again. He hadn't hung out with his double-cousin much, but he knew his face. "Ah, Kadaj, you scared me!" He said with an overdramatic expression on his face, holding his paw to his chest. He couldn't help but let a smile through. "I'm not doin' much, just patrolling." He said solemnly, standing up and puffing his chest out. "You know, making sure none of those traitors get in here," his voice was a little growl as he said it. His mother had brainwashed him well, goldencoats were not to be trusted and they were, to him, scum of the earth.

To Kadaj's second question, Usu gave a sheepish grin. "Weelll.. She knows I'm out and about? I'm still in the Pride's borders, I should be good." He hoped. He reaaally wasn't in the mood for a punishment tonight, though Noyana usually took it easier on Usu since if he made a mistake, it was normally an accident. Perhaps she was a little too loose with her sons, but they were doing ok.

“All is well then.”

He answered and sat himself down, his large paws seemed SO huge beside his cousin’s, but that didn’t matter much to the masked male, no. He seemed far away in thought. Though he was older, Kadaj didn’t speak much and was very awkward, stance wise. He was always so sluggish when he sat and moved about..

But he was a damn good hunter, and wore the bones to prove it.

“You are starting soon with your duties, I see. It is a good thing, this is.”

He smirked and tilted his head.

“Your mother and my mother are sisters, correct? And our fathers are brothers?”

Kadaj had never rally understood.. the very strange relationship the two pairs shared.

“Because, if it is so, that is very strange, and would make you and I strange too.”

Usufii nodded to Kadaj's first question. "I figure I'd better get a head start, right? A little experience can't hurt. Besides, I'd like to know the borders' land before I actually have to guard them for real." Of course he'd raise an alarm should he spot someone who didn't belong, but... He realistically doubted he could fight off anyone older than him.

Usu was kind of startled by Kadaj's speech pattern, it was a bit bizzare. He said nothing about it, though.

"Yeah, I don't know what we are. We're cousins, but times two?" He guessed with a skeptical look and a head tilt. The bright juve really didn't know. "I guess it is strange, not many lions can say that, can they?" he asked with a smile. There was a pause before the bright boy spoke again. "Hey Kadaj... You ever come out here and just stare over there?" He asked with a head-jerk towards the Pridelands, where he guessed the most invaders would be. He sometimes resented them, he was curious if his cousin shared the same feelings.

“I look, not stare.”

He spoke out, admitting to his own actions.

“I go over there from time to time, too.”

A wicked smirk crossed his exposed fangs as he gazed down at his… double cousin darkly.

“At night time, when no one else knows…”

He was letting his secrets spill.

Usu hadn't heard that word used much. He knew what it meant, but never in that tone. He tilted his head a little more. He had a feeling that it'd be wiser not to go there, but... Well, he did have relatives that he could use as an excuse. Grandparents on his mother's side and aunts and uncles on both sides... "Yeah, maybe sometime I could go with you," He figured if he was with his older cousin it wouldn't be so bad if he got caught. Worst came to worst, he could blame it on Kadaj. He pondered it, which in turn led to him pondering whether he'd really do it ever.

"I was born there too, I lived there for a little while, but everyone I met was a stick in the mud." He said, lips tightened.

He gave the prospect of going back some more thought. "Yeah... Maybe I would go with you some time." He'd have to sleep on it, but the more he thought, the more he understood the rebellion that Kadaj spoke of.

“Sometime then.”

The larger male smirked and moved himself away from the boy; his eyes narrowed under his mask as he shifted himself to gaze past the outlands once more. He was going to go now, he had to. The hunt was calling him.
“I will come back for you when you grow again. I will take you to that place again. I will take you home.”

With that said Kadaj leaped away from him, not bothering to say goodbye.