No matter what anyone said, Kovu was nervous. It was the end of his wife's pregnancy, and she was birthing his cub. His heir! Simba and Aliyah were expecting, Malka and Tama left the Pride Lands for awhile, Chumvi and Kula were trying for a cub, Tojo and Banou planned to have just one cub, and Mheetu and Timira were perfectly fine without cubs.

In short, no one could help Kovu calm down.

"Kovu, ease down." Simba told his cousin with little help behind his tone. "She'll be fine."

"Not helping," Kovu answered with one slight glare, Rafiki refused to let him in. "Is it always going to take this long for lionesses to birth a cub?" He had never actually been waiting for a lioness to birth a cub before and he was scared. Scared his cub might end up like his or her's sibling.

"Dude," Mheetu smiled. "Nala's strong and besides, every lion acts like that when their lioness is birthing their cub."

"Mheetu," Kovu frowned. "You aren't going to feel like this... I think."

"I don't care if I can't have cubs," Mheetu said. "I'm perfectly happy with just my mate and such, and I'm going to have a little nephew or neice."

"Everything is just... scary now."

Simba gave Kovu a look. "You just don't want to lose the cub, is all. You think I'm not scared for Aliyah's due date?"

"Simba..."

"Kovu," Tor spoke up. "Listen, Rafiki is doing all he can. You should've seen Scar and Mufasa, plus myself, when you, Simba, Nala, and Mheetu were being born! We barely sat still for a moment."

"Really?" Kovu asked.

Tor nodded and Kovu sat still once again. It felt like hours before Rafiki came out of the den, and Kovu met him with a worried expression. The shaman just laughed and said he could go in and meet his queen and cubs.

Running into the den, the king was met with Nala purring at three small cubs at her side and his green eyes widen. Three cubs. He had triplets!

Triplets!

The first one of the triplets was a light furred one, the same color as Tor's fur but lighter making it seem like a white color. The paws weren't colored at all but the underbelly and muzzle were light-cream like Nala and the nose was shaped like Kovu's and black.

The second cub was more like Kovu in color but much more like Nala in shape. The same auburn fur and the paws, muzzle and underbelly were a more pale-orange color, the nose was shaped like Nala's and was black. The second one was more close to Nala than the others.

The last one of the triplets was a light peach-ish furred one with a light beige muzzle, underbelly, and paws. The nose was purple shaped like Nala's nose but every so often as the cub breathed Kovu could see it change shap into his nose shape.

"Nala, they're so beautiful," Kovu purred loudly kissing his mate's forehead. "What are the genders of our cubs?"

"One boy and two girls," Nala explained. "I thought you should name the cubs as you need to approve the names of the cubs as King."

Kovu looked down to his son and thought of a name. "Sariel, for our son." Then to his first daughter. "As for our first daughter, she can be named Akina." Finally his eyes landed on the last born of the triplets. "Kiara. Her name can be Kiara."

The queen gave a purr and nuzzled her cubs. "Perfect names for our little ones. Who's to be ruling...?"

"Laws state that the first born is to, I expect Sariel was born first?" Kovu questioned and Nala nodded. "Very well, Sariel is going to be king."

"We'll have his ceremony in four days," Nala said as Kovu laid down beside as the rest of their family got to meet the three cubs.

First Tor and Sarafina, then Zira, Simba and Aliyah, and Mheetu. Mwanga and Kala were the last ones to meet them and when the two rules were left alone, Kovu picked up his son and placed him in between his paws.

Sariel was the first one to open his eyes to reveal emerald green eyes shining up at his father, then was Kiara having reddish-brown eyes, and Akina having sapphire blue eyes.

"If only dad could see you three," Kovu whispered to himself. "Maybe even your sibling that never got to live... if only they could see you now..." He lowered his head to give Sariel a nuzzle

Sariel placed his tiny paws on his father's muzzle, trying to keep him from moving going away and Kovu smiled.

"Hey little guy..." Kovu purred as Nala watched with love. "You're gonna make daddy and mommy proud, being the next king."

"He's going to have a heart of a king," Nala said. "Just like you."

"A heart of a king?" Kovu blinked. "Me?"

Nala nodded and Kovu rolled his eyes before he placed Sariel back by his sisters and the boy accidently, gently, kicked Akina in the face as Kiara bite his ear.

The two smile as they watched their little ones.

Out in the sky, Scar smiled happily watching his family with a small creamy-pale auburn cub with sapphire eyes by his side.