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It'd been quite some time since his run in with Kiuma, who he has decided he doesn't like but wasn't scared out of the pridelands entirely. Instead Kijibwa decided to be a little more careful in his travelling for awhile, staying nearer the borders and out of sight.

But now! The adolescent lion decided it was time to try again, convincing himself Kiburi wouldn't lie and the only lioness he'd come across so far was an exception he hadn't been told about.

Kijibwa walks out in the late afternoon sun, heading in a direction toward the center of the pridelands once again. He relaxes the farther he walks, moving at a leisurely pace- not paying much attention to the distance, though he's decidedly more attentive to his immediate surroundings.

Kijibwa's ear turn when he hears the sound of something growling, it doesn't sound very threatening to him but he looks around to be sure. He looks in the opposite direction just when the cub comes leaping at his leg, making him do an odd sort of turning jump to see what hit him. He stands trying to look like a threat, but he fails miserably at it- luckily for him all that his eyes fall upon is a cub.

"What?" he resumes a natural stance and tilts his head, "A cub."

He says this almost as if she wasn't there, then he steps over to her and leans down to get a better look.

"Where'd you come from?" he asks, smiling. She does't look mean or threatening.

(( Don't worry about it XD

She's so cute! ))

Kijibwa straightens up when Chinara claims to have come from the sky, taking on a silly-looking thoughtful expression. There's no way she came from the sky, he knew cubs don't just appear out of no where- even if he doesn't know exactly where they come from.

"But cubs don't just come from the sky," he says finally, "Are you sure?"

When she apologizes for crashing into his leg he can't help but look at it, it really hadn't hurt him so much as it had startled him- and before he says anything she's brushing it off.

"That's ok," he assures her, almost laughing, "I'm sorry I put my leg in your way."

"Oh," Kijibwa blinks, no longer puzzling where the cub came from, "That makes more sense than the sky." Life was back to making sense, no lions popping out of thin air- even if this cub had caught him off guard.

"Chinawa'fowa?" he repeats after her, tilting his head and considering how she'd been saying her 'r's and 'l's like 'w's- this doesn't help him figure out exactly what her name is, instead it makes more possibilities.

"Er," he mumbles, "Let's just call you.. China. Much easier, I think." He grins and nods, it's the first part of her name and the only part he can be sure of.

"My name is Kijibwa," he introduces himself, pleased there are no 'r's or 'l's in his name, making it easier to say. He sits down.

"Sure you can!" He beams, always happy to make things easier with friendly lions- which he's not sure this one is. That is, until she randomly decides to attack his leg. Though startled by the sudden pounce, he stays sitting, though he leans a bit to the side opposite the side with the leg she wrestles with.

"Hey!" he swats ather playfully, though careful as well because of how much smaller she is. He's surprised again to find that her teeth hurt more than you'd expect. With a grin, he swats at her again. This time intending to get her off of his leg but not without it's own playfulness.

Proof he can't fight comes in the form of a little green-eyed cub as he not only fails to get her off of him but ends up with his mane and ear being tugged toward the ground. He instinctively leans back with her, closer to the ground, to try to make the tugging stop and to make sure if she does fall it isn't far.

"Aw, come on, China," he says in a mock-whine, "You're so much stronger than I am."

Deciding to actually 'fight' back, he pulls back by lifting up his head against her tugging- even standing up to try to make it harder for her to hold on.

(Doomi! <33 Feel free. xD)

Chinara wobbled a bit, but continued to tug at his ear. "Weawwy?" she said, letting go of his ear for a split second. Lucky for him, she tumbled down his back and onto the ground with an 'oof!'.

The cub shook her little head a bit, before standing up, shaking her body. Green eyes peered around the area, before she noticed the cream-colored cub.
Grinning evilly, she stalked slowly towards her, around the rock, before appearing from the side. "BOO!" she yelled to startle Tekeza.

Tekeza jumped up with a yelp, her eyes wide with fright. "Hey!" She yelled, her face flushed with embarresment at being scared by a cub. When she calmed back down, she sat back on her haunches, shifting the weight from paw to paw nervously. She could see another, a male. "Uh..h-hello." She said shyly.