Alright! It has been to long sense I have done a story on fanfiction! This is mostly the cause of me losing my last laptop and all the contents of the stories I had WIP. Now, this caused me to go into a lazy lag on making chapter fanfics and I resorted to one-shots, and a good 99% of those never made it on the 'net anyway and when they did, they were on my DA account because I felt they weren't material. Now I have a laptop that holds the right stuff for the right writing materials and so I come back with a brand-new strike. Here you get my first ever Tarzan movie based fanfic! Lately, I have been having a lot of Tarzan muse, and this is mostly due to my Niece constantly wanting to watch the movie and I watch her all the time so I have to watch it with her. Oddly enough, the movie never gets old! And I know I am a teenager, but it doesn't matter what age group you are to like a movie and so I am here writing a story set in one of the huge time-gaps of young Tarzan's past with his Ape family. This story focuses more on something that I feel needs more attention and that is Tarzan and Kerchak fluff! [No not couple wise.] So if you still wanna read, keep going my minions! Hehehe! I own everything!... Nah, that is a total lie. I own nothing other than the story idea. I wish I owned the Movie "Tarzan" but oh well!

Also; Warning- This contains violence, gore, and it has realistic charastics to real Gorilla life. Kala is rather one of the high ranking females in the Troop and Kerchak has more than just Tarzan as his children.

The wind blew through the jungle trees, causing them to vibrate and causing the jungle to seem like it is singing a lullaby to the contents it held. The hum of the jungle animals caused the lullaby to have a weird beat to it, but it wasn't upsetting, rather it was peaceful. For once, the jungle was peaceful.

A gentle hum of sleeping titans came alive below a canopy of trees, and looking down, dappled light shined on a nice sight. A troop of Gorillas slept peacefully for their Mid-Day nap, getting as much rest as they could manage before they set off to the place where'd they'd do their late-day activities. They slept so peacefully without a worry in the world from the dangerous jungle, and the reason for that was the guard stationed on a small outcrop. This guard was a massive silverback, his dark ruby-brown eyes never missing a beat as he watched over his Troop. The only time his gaze left the troop and the area around it was to look up at where the melodizing chirping was coming from. The birds were active and for Kerchak, that was a good sign. As long as those feathered creatures kept up their song, that meant no threat lured close enough to be worried about.

Suddenly Kerchak stiffened as a screech hit the quiet jungle, startling some of the sleeping Troop members into waking and looking around in terror for the cause of the scream.

"I'm gonna kill you for this!"

Slowly, the silverback relaxed, giving an annoyed grunt. It was none other than his niece, Terkina, and mostly likely she was yelling at their unique member, Tarzan. Kerchak shook his head and he lowered himself off the outcrop, walking through the Troop, and giving the disturbed members gentle nudges to go back to sleep, his relaxed stature providing the urge they needed to relax and once again slip back into the warm embrace of sleep.

-To Tarzan-

Tarzan laughed as he swung over to a branch on his vine, grabbing the growth on the bark with his feet and this gave him the edge to release the vine and grasp the branch with a further grasp with his hands, moving up onto a stable part of the branch. His brown eyes moved back to the young blue/gray female swinging towards him less gracefully on the vines, her face twisted in rage as she came closer.

"Oh Terk! You always say that, but as I have pointed out before, it never happens!" Tarzan said as she copied him when she reached the branch, and he gave her a slight shove with his elbow.

"You ever push me off the edge of a tree before I got a good hold of the vine again and I will make sure that threat becomes fulfilled! Got that hairless wonder?!" Terk shot back, sitting back on her back-quarters to give him a harsh shove with her cupped hands before starting to dust herself off. It wasn't that she was dirty, but it was a habit that she never could get rid of.

"Oh fine! I am really sorry Terk. I should have never pushed you and I have learned my lesson." Tarzan said with fake guilt, making sure his voice didn't provide the laughter he felt at the moment and a sly curve found its way onto his lips as he waited for her to realize his taunt.

"Yea, that is more like it…!" Terkina turned to look at him after picking some branch bark off one of her back legs. As she moved her brown orbs to look at him, she caught sight of the smile and her brows furrowed down. "..Wait a minute! You didn't mean that!" Terk let out an enraged, yet playful growl and she threw herself at him, her arms open, and her hands ready to grab him to pin the hairless ape.

"Nope!" Tarzan yelled, his voice ringing with his held back laughter as he flattened his slimmer form against the bark, only laughing more as she flew over him and slammed into the main trunk of the tree.

"OUCH!"

"That is what you get for messing with the tree expert!" Tarzan giggled and then rushed towards her, jumping onto her head before grabbing a knot in the tree's trunk and he started to decline from the branch Terk was on.

"I'll show you 'Tree Expert'! Just wait until I get my hands on you! Ooohh! I'll make you wish you'd just stayed quiet!"

"Oh really now!?"

"YES!"

Tarzan just grinned and continued down the tree. "Not unless I get back to the Troop first!"

"Oh that won't happen!"

"Wanna bet?"

"YES!"

With a deep breath, Tarzan released his grip and fell the last 10 feet down to the ground, smirking before he took off at a dead run on all fours towards the Troop, hearing Terk come crashing after him.

"GET BACK HERE!"

Tarzan didn't even bother answering as he swirled around a corner and was in mid-laugh when he slammed into something. The boy fell back and shaking his head, he slowly opened his dazed eyes to see himself staring at a massive arm covered in black fur and in utter terror, Tarzan slowly drew his eyes up to the face. "H-Hi Kerchak…"

"What are you doing?! Don't you have anything else to do than disturb the family while they are nesting?!"

Flinching, Tarzan shifted so he was on all fours again and shaking, he lowered himself to the ground. "I'm s-sorry… I d-didn't mean to c-cause distress…" Tarzan muttered, offering his wrist towards the other in a sign of apology.

"Whatever. Get going than and keep quiet!"

Tarzan drew his wrist back when the other roughly shoved him away with a cupped hand and turning quickly back the way he'd come, Tarzan dashed off, holding back the slight moisture in his eyes. He was only running about half a minute before he ran into a guilty looking Terk.

"Sorry buddy…. That was my doing…" The blue/gray gorilla female looked down at the ground in guilt and Tarzan reached out a cupped hand to gently hit her chin up so their eyes were meeting once again.

"No it wasn't... It was mine… It was nesting time and I was encouraging you to be loud…"

"N-No! It was me! I can—"

"Terk… Drop it… Please…"

"Oh-Okay…"

Slowly, both youngsters turned and headed off back to the treeline in silence….

-Late Afternoon-

Tarzan walked silently beside his mother, his head lowered to the ground as he walked. He could hear the laughter from the other young members, but he couldn't pull himself to join in with their games. Terk wasn't with them, rather sleeping away on her mother's back due to them not sleeping during nesting hour. Ever sense he ran into Kerchak, Tarzan had not been very active in anything he did and had rather kept his gaze firmly on the ground… Every once in a while, he could feel Kala's gaze turn to him in concern, but his mother kept her thoughts to herself… For now, that was.

Nothing moved fast for Tarzan, as he stayed quiet through dinner and just sat with his mother, toning out her conversations with the other females and accompanying his time with a busy Ant hill. He only looked away when a shadow fell over the hill and a low grunt told him who it was.

"How is everything over here?"

"Fine Kerchak… Although I am slightly worried… Tarzan refuses to go play with the others… In fact, he has been really quiet sense Nest time… Do you think he is sick?" Kala's voice was etched with worry and Tarzan felt a slight pang for causing his mother such worry.

"He is not sick. Just suffering from getting no rest when he had the chance to nest, and he decided to be loud and anxious during that time, which only caused him more grief than needed." Kerchak's tone was emotionless and Tarzan could feel his chilling gaze shift to him.

Quickly, the hairless youngster stiffened and turned his gaze to the jungle. The total opposite of where his 'Father' was.

"Oh okay… Well than, we are fine. You may go."

Tarzan could hear the bitterness in his mother's tone and he bit his lower lip. It was because of him that Kerchak and Kala bickered like this now and it was times like this that Tarzan couldn't help but get mad at his own existence. Tarzan then drew himself from his thoughts as the shadow lifted and he seen Kerchak moving away to check on the rest of the Troop, but he swore that the other was glaring back at him out of the corner of his eyes and quickly, and a bit paranoidly, Tarzan looked back down at the ground. He couldn't do this anymore! He was just tearing this family slowly apart. He didn't belong and he knew it…

After a bit of debate by himself, Tarzan came up with a plan. He'd leave to give his family the space they needed and may even stay away for good. Tarzan was working out the extras to this plan when he heard his mother's call for him to come lay down.

Quickly, the youngster responded to his mother's call, rushing over to the brown female and jumping into her embrace.

"You seem to be more cheery." Kala commented as she laid down, holding Tarzan in her warm embrace.

"I am Mother. I got over what I was dealing with and worked out a situation." Tarzan said happily, hiding away the pain he felt. Kala's eyes were so warm and comforting that the boy was considering reconsidering his plan. However, he wasn't able to fully decide before a sudden scream echoed through the trees, and all of the troop were suddenly alert as they looked around in panic. They knew what that was… It belonged to one of the most dangerous cats known to Gorilla… Lions…