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 Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 6:48 pm
It was in late at night, and though Chuakari was in her usual spot beside her mate as they tried to sleep she found she was having a good deal of trouble getting comfortable. It was difficult, but the small cheetah spent much of the night tossing and turning as she tried to get into a position where she could fall asleep, but it wasn't happening. There was a strange pain in her stomach, and in the early stages she only took it to be discomfort. She had, after all, gotten rather big. She didn't want to worry Hasidi, so she put off mentioning anything until she was certain something was going on. However, it was very likely that he'd noticed something going on.
Finally, Kari gave up on trying to sleep and lifted her head. She looked up to the starry night sky, and then over to Hasidi. With a slight groan, she tensed for a moment from the pain and then managed to nudge her mate.
"Hasidi," she whispered tensely, hoping he wasn't too deeply asleep.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:38 pm
The small dark earthy red and cream lion had not been deeply sleeping infact he had not been sleeping at all. He lay silently with his eyes closed listening to his love toss and her. Concern that she was not feeling well as mounting inside of him, but he had for most of the stary night pushed away the thought as her mere discomfort.
"Kari," he spoke softly, slightly louder than her, "are you alright, my love?" He lifted his head, amber eyes focused on her lovely pink form.
He was sure that coming to the Kusini'mwenzi lands was the rigth thing to do, after all this was home, and if anything was to go wrong the pride would undoubtably know what to do and how to treat what was wrong.
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 9:54 pm
Kari was very obviously tense, and only seemed to get more so when Hasidi opened his eyes and asked if she was alright. She didn't know what to say, what to tell him. With no experience in such things, even from others, she only could go by her instincts and they were saying either the cubs were coming or something was wrong with them.
"It hurts," she murmured, and had leaned forward to try to reach to her mate but found it didn't help to stretch out. "I think- the cubs-"
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:01 pm
He rose to his feet quickly when she started to stretch and padded towards her, at the mention of the cubs he became just as tense as she seemed, "Are they coming, what can I do?" He thought of offering to go get one of the pride members that was good at this type of thing, but thought against it, this was a private thing. Bending down he licked her behind the ears lovingly hoping he'd give her some sort of direction.
This was of course new to both parents and he without a doubt could not imagine becoming a parent with anyone but Chuakari, the love of his life. If he had time to think he would not have come up with anything too poetic, he wasn't bright, was not very articulate with his feelings. (As a narator looking in I would hope to see him thinking of their long journey and how this should be the perfect ending to a long, long wait.)
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Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 10:13 pm
She breathed deeply against the pain, inching close to Hasidi when he came closer and offered what comfort he could. Kari was certain there wasn't much he could do for her in this except be there with her, and that's exactly what she needed him to do. She had to keep herself calm, Kari would not let herself worry Hasidi more than she needed to and panicking only made things worse- she could feel it.
"I think they are," she agreed with his suggestion, but made no further response to his offer. With a quiet and stifled whimper, Kari reminded herself what she was doing this for. She and Hasidi would have a family, Hasidi wanted a family, he was the one who had brought it up. And she wanted it as much as he did. They were about to get their family.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 5:27 pm
Hasidi gritted his teeth and for a moment closed his eyes, there was nothing he could do to stop the pain that the one he loved was going through. The helplessness of the situation angered him, but there was nothing more that could be done.
"Do you need anything to make you more comfortable?" he asked awkwardly, he'd never been around during a birth, Neph had been born when he was out of the den and when he arrived everything was over.
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Posted: Sun Apr 22, 2007 8:54 pm
Kari looked up to her mate sadly, seeing the frustration in his eyes and hearing the awkward tone in his voice. This was not easy for him, not being able to do anything, which in turn made it many times harder for the cheetah. She shook her head, and as gently as she could manage nipped at his paws affectionately.
"Just stay with me," she pleaded, and found herself suddenly overwhelmed with the urge to push. Squinting her eyes shut, unable to help but worry, she pushed- and shortly following they officially were parents.
Kari curled inward and retrieved the small, pink fuzzball and cleaned him off. It was hard to tell, but it looked to her like he was a beautiful mix of Hasidi and her, despite the odd white. Gender did not matter, she knew exactly what name belonged with this little one- the only one they were already certain of. And for a fleeting moment she had a break, and it seemed they might be done.
"Tafasuri," she mumbled, looking from the small wonder to his father with a smile.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 9:08 am
Just when Hasidi was about to protest that he would never in a million years dream of leaving her at this time, he noticed the awkward motions that Kari went through.
"Areyo.." he mummbled almost incoharently and then she produced one of the most beautiful things the tiny red lion had ever seen, their first child, the white legs and pink salmon torso.
"Tafasuri," he smiled happily and made a motion to bend down and and touch the tiny form, but was a afraid to do so...what if he was so clumsy that he hurt their first born...?
"Buh-buh-boy or gu-gu-girl?" he stuttered in his excitment.
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Posted: Sun Apr 29, 2007 10:51 am
Kari watched Hasidi with a small smile on her face, watching his reaction to their firstborn. She was caught between frowning and laughing as Hasidi hesitated, and she reached over and licked him affectionately on the cheek. She wasn't given much of a break, and she could feel the strange pains returning.
"Boy, I think," she answered in a low voice, given the newborn Tafasuri a gentle lick as he nursed at her side. Soon the cheetah felt the same desire to push, tensing slightly and in another few moments a second son was born.
"Two," she murmured after cleaning him off and making sure he was somewhere he could feed and be safe and warm, "Another son." Kari took a deep breath, and glanced up at Hasidi.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 5:29 pm
Hasidi beamed outwardly, the silly grin of a new father spread wide across his face. His anxiety was soon quieted as she licked him and he quickly returned the favor, it seemed that the hard part was over, they were parents.
But just as Hasidi's fears seemed to be saited she appeared to be quite uncomfortable again, his brow furrowed but this time the smile did not leave his face, she did it once, surely she could do it again.
Of course, sure enough here came the second of their little family, "Two sons, what more could a father ask for?" he bent down and spread his tongue across both boys in a big affectionate lick.
"Got anymore in there?" he joked bravely, and a part of him wished she had, but the other wished they could enjoy this moment in peace and be able to fawn over their newborn sons.
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Posted: Tue May 08, 2007 6:33 pm
"A little girl, maybe?" Kari suggested when Hasidi asked what more he could want, smiling. It was something she thought would be nice, though she would never favour any cub over another for gender- that would be silly. Experiencing both sides of parenting was just something she wanted to do.
"But that can wait," she added, smiling at him when he asked if there were any more to come. She was about the ask if he had a name for their second born when a familiar sensation came over her again. Soon they had a third son at her side.
"Another boy," she announced tiredly, now keeping her head resting on the ground for the moment, "Do you have any names for them?" Kari glanced back and fourth between all of her boys, smiling at Hasidi to see if he wanted to name them.
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 10:49 am
"A littler girl perhaps..." He nodded quietly and then gulped quickly, "Na-ames..?" What if he named them the wrong things? What if they didn't like them when they got older..and now there were two to name? They had talked and thought carefully over Tafasuri's name, they wanted to honor all of those in their 'families.'
"The Orange son, Mhuni, I like that one," he seemed almost scared to state the name that came to mind.
"The dark red son..Najisi, that is if you agree," he liked the way they sounded and thought they would do fine for names, but if she didn't agree...well anything would go. His fear and anxiety for her started to peak through, he wanted to start pacing and at the same time wanted to cuddle down beside her and tell her how lovely she was and how fantastic their three sons were.
"Are you alright?" his words all seemed as if they were whispered, even as he said the names before, as if by speaking to loudly he could upset her.
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Posted: Thu May 10, 2007 3:59 pm
Kari watched Hasidi with shining eyes despite how tired she was starting to get. It was not an easy task to bring three cubs into the world, and something told her they were not quite through yet. She sighed happily and glanced down to the cubs as Hasidi cautiously gave them their names.
"Tafasuri, Mhuni and Najisi," she repeated, and admired her sons until the last new member of their family joined her brothers at the cheetah's side. Now Kari felt her exhaustian start to overwhelm her, there would be no more and her body new it was time to rest.
"A girl," she murmured, glancing to Hasidi once the cub had been cleaned, drifting off slowly but making an effort to wait for a name to be decided.
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 1:51 pm
What could he say to his mate, the female of his dreams, she was beautiful to him even in her exhausted state and he blushed silently looking her over and it warmed his heart as he glanced over his children, their children. She had given him three strong sons and a daughter, something that casued his heart to swell with pride.
"Nakupenda, with all my love," he whispered quietly. As much as he dared he layed down flat beside her close to the cubs and pulled himself closer dragging his belly in the dirt, "Are you alright, and are they?" he whispered again. His joy was exhausting but not as much, of course, as her exhaustion.
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Posted: Fri May 25, 2007 2:10 pm
"Nakupenda," Kari repeated dreamily, resting her head on the ground as she was finally given time to relax, to rest. They had their family, and they would get to know them better in the daylight for they had just gone through quite the ordeal, each and every one of them. When Hasidi drew closer, Kari did what she could to get closer to him as well despite the limitation the cubs and her own exhaustian presented. Resting her head against Hasidi, she smiled.
"They're perfect," she murmured, and drifted off to sleep.
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