Jini = Green
Sungura = Dark Red

Sungura was waiting there, like he had promised to Kizi, underneath the tree at the border of the Mwako'bi'giza pride. He was getting antsy as he had been waiting for her for quite some time now. Was it possible that her family had moved already? And that he would not see his new best friend ever again? He hoped not. He loved his sister, Kipofu, but having a friend that wasn't her, or a relative was exciting and new and he didn't want to give that up just yet.

Looking around with a sad little pout on his face, Sungura trotted up to the tree, sit down in front of it and gave the tree a hug. He felt like it needed a hug, he felt like he needed a hug. If Kizi was here she would have gotten a hug, he'd have even hugged Awena, even if he thought she was being mean to him for some reason.

"Where is she," He whined to himself, giving the tree another big hug before letting go.

Jininajisi was bored but had no interest in sparring with her sister. Stupid Kizi had taken to wandering around; after one such visit she'd come back looking as if she'd been crying. She'd ran straight to papa and had mentioned something about a lion named Spenta or something. Jini hadn't been paying much attention. Stupid sister, she was so annoying.

Today she wandered far from her family, irritated with the whole lot of them. She found herself wandering upon a cub who appeared to be.. hugging a tree?

"Where is who?" Jini asked sharply, eyeing the cub with bright eyes. Her tail thrashed about behind her, ears perked forward questioningly.

Sungura jumped when he heard Jini speak and quickly made a dash behind the tree, fearing that the person who was speaking to him was a demon. He wasn't far off from his assumption, but it wasn't quite the demon he knew of. Peaking out from behind the tree, the gold, black and red lion cub blinked quietly at Jini. She looked familiar. Like Kizi, but not like Kizi, because she wasn't Kizi's pretty blue color. She was bright and yellow and green.

"I'm waiting for my new friend..." He said quietly, ducking back behind the tree each time he stopped speaking, still warily of the cub before her. Did she had blood running down the front of her face? "She was supposed to meet me here, and we were gonna play..."

Jini padded closer, curious about this cub. Her tone turned cajoling, almost friendly. To a stranger, it might almost seem as if she was attempting to be kind. Anyone who really knew the cub would recognize her tone as a complete farce.

"I love new friends," she replied, tail flicking up dust as she settled back on her haunches. "What's your new friend's name?" Her head tilted to the side; Jini had a sneaking suspicion that this boy was waiting for her newly wandering sister.

"Maybe we could be new friends, too."

Sungura was a rather innocent and unsuspecting little cub at the moment, unable to yet distinguish the difference between sincerity and deception. That's how Kizi had caught him in her web to begin with, and now he was falling into Jini's as well, if only for the time being.

He took a few cautious steps from out behind the tree, setting himself a safe distance away from Jini unless he needed to go running back to his mother and father, tail between his cutely colored legs. He looked away for a moment before answering Jini, "Her name is Kizi. She's very pretty and has a pretty blue coat. We're gonna be best friends forever."

Or at least that was what he thought.

Jini did so love being right, but she was careful not to let it show. Growing up in a ruthless cut-throat family like she was, it was merely by necessity that she was able to be so conniving.

"Ooh, that sounds so fun," she purred, muzzle breaking in a smile. "I am Jininajisi. What is your name?" She moved a bit closer, circling him before sitting once more.

She didn't want to be obvious about planting a seed of doubt in the cub's mind, but first she had to find out if Kizi had told this boy anything about Jini.

"Sungura..." He said shyly, watching her as she circled him. I made him nervous, and his nervousness showed as he pawed at the dirt and leaned away from her whenever she got too close to him. He didn't like being circled like that, it bothered him. It made him feel like he was being judged, and after being judged by the whole entire pride already, he wasn't fond of it.

"She was supposed to meet me here so we could play, but she isn't here. I hope her family didn't move away," He said, concerned that he had lost his new friend. Even thought they had only met once, Kizi already had him wound tightly. He wanted to see her and play with her and give her hugs.

Jini nodded sadly, her expression full of sympathy. "Did she say anything about her family or about them leaving?" The way she asked it made it sound like she was trying to help him decide whether or not Kizi and her family had moved. Really, she wanted to know if anything had been said about herself; if it had, she'd merely waste a few hours with Sungura. If nothing had been said, Jini could weave her web of doubt in the cubs mind.

Even as a cub her knack for deception was remarkable.

Sungura thought for a moment before nodding, "Kizi said she had a really mean sister. And that the sister called her ugly and was mean to her all the time. And it made me really sad, because I have a sister, and I would never be mean to her or call her ugly. Sisters are gifts."

That was as far as Kizi had mentioned her family. She hadn't even mentioned Jini's name when talking about her. It didn't matter though, whoever her sister was, was mean to him. Mean people were demons and demons weren't people you were supposed to like.

He cleared his mind of his quickly before talking about Kizi some more, which undoubtedly would rub Jini the wrong way in the end, "When I talk to Kizi I feel all funny in my stomach, like I ate something bad. Kipofu said maybe Kizi was making me sick, but Uncle said that's what happens when you like someone. I'm not sure of which yet."

Jini's skin crawled. Her fur rose along her back against her attempts to calm herself. It was just disgusting. Her own sister had powers of deceit that could rival Jini's. It was sickening how Kizi had wound this cub around her paw so easily.

"Kizi, Kizi... where have I heard that name before..." She rose to her feet again, pacing. "Oh! I remember. Kizi, blue, with swirls, right? Has a little genet that follows her around?"

She waited for Sungura to indicate that yes, that was the Kizi he was talking about. Jini could taste the anticipation bubbling on her tongue. Eager to destroy any friendship her sister might cultivate with someone, no matter how false it might be.

Sungura nodded to her slowly, becoming a little more open to Jini now that he knew she knew his friend Kizi. He wondered how he knew Kizi. The thought that Jini and Kizi were sisters had not crossed his mind, mostly because Kizi was such a bright blue, so he figured Kizi's family was also blue in some way.

"You know Kizi?" Sungura asked, tilting his head to the side questioningly, "How do you know my friend?"

Jini nodded, boredly batting around a little stone. "I know her!" She paused for a moment, debating on how to continue. She had to proceed very carefully. "I know her pretty well. She told me about you!" She rose to her feet, batting the stone towards Sungura playfully. "She said you were kinda stupid, I dunno why she'd say that! You've been so nice to me."

She bowed playfully, rump in the air and tail wagging expectantly as she waited for him to bat the stone back towards her. Jini wasn't sure if he would or not, but she wanted to act as carefree as possible when trying to convince Sungura that her sister had said these terrible things. Truth be told she'd never even heard of Sungura before.

Sungura frowned at Jini as the rock came towards him. He did not bat it back, and instead took a step backwards to distance himself from her some more. He didn't believe that Kizi would say that. She was so upset when her sister had told her she was ugly that she had asked him what he thought of her. Truth be told, he had only told her she was pretty at first because he couldn't think of anything else, and wasn't sure what was and was not pretty. But he liked her coat color and decided she was pretty based on that.

"Kizi said I was sweet and nice. Why would she say something mean when she was so upset about her sister being mean?" He asked, wanting to know why Kizi would say something like that. He hadn't been mean to her, and he wouldn't call anyone stupid, even if they had been mean to him.

Jini's brow furrowed as if confused. "Well, I'm not sure. She's always been that way, if you didn't notice. She says the same things about me." Jinina figured it was time for the big reveal. She hoped he'd react the way she'd planned; if not, it was no big loss, really; she'd wasted a good while entertaining herself with Sungura.

"You see, I'm the mean sister she told you about." Her shoulders drooped and she flopped onto the ground, a plume of dust rising up above her seemingly forlorn body. "I try and be a good sister to her and then she goes and tells strangers I called her ugly!" Jini pouted, sad eyes alighting on Sungura once more. "She's not ugly! She's the prettiest out of all of us with her blue fur like the sky..." Jini held back a gag. Her sister was hideous, but she couldn't say that to Sungura.

Sungura was confused and not longer comfortable. Jini was Kizi's sister? And the mean sister she had spoken about at that? The one that Sungura had decided was terrible because she said her sister was ugly. He wasn't sure what he should be believe right now. He was confused and he wanted to talk to Kizi about this, not Jini.

"I....I need to go. I wanna talk to Kizi and you're not Kizi and I don't want to be around here anymore," Sungura said, a little panic setting into his voice. He was far from comfortable at this point. Jini may not have succeeded in planting doubt in the boys head, but she surely managed to upset him a great deal. He started to back away from Jini very cautiously.

Jini pouted, enjoying the way he backed away from her. She'd planted that little seed of doubt in his mind and it thrilled her. It truly did.

"Well, if you don't want to play that's fine," she murmured, sniffing softly. "I don't want to make you stay." Jini shrugged a shoulder, rising to her feet. "I should probably go home, too. If I stay away too long Kizi starts to call me names and tattles on me to my papa."

"If I see Kizi I'll tell her we met," Jini drawled, padding away from the cub. "I already knew she wouldn't be here," she added as an afterthought, calling to him over her shoulder. "She told me she didn't want to see your stupid face again."