Years later, Kopa, Kiara and Kion grew up to be active cubs. Kopa had a red Mohawk like his little brother Kion, who had spots on his fur and Kiara grew up similar to her paternal grandmother, Sarabi. Kiara grew close to Twilight Sparkle, Applejack, Rainbow Dash, Pinkie Pie, Rarity, Fluttershy, Creative Spirit, Mariposa, Sunset Shimmer, Sela and the other female cubs while Kopa and Kion played with the other cubs and their friends, the Lion Guard, Bunga the honey badger, Fuli the cheetah, Beshte the hippo and Ono the egret.

Kopa: Cmon Kion.

Kion catches up with his brother, only to be pounced at by a white skinned child. Kion looked up to see Kijani himself, the boy has long, messy platinum blonde hair and he has muscles growing on his arms and legs.

Kion: Good pounce Kijani. Now can you please get off of me?

Kijani: Whoops, sorry. (Gets off his brother)

Shining Armor: Nice one. It's getting better than you pranking your sister, Kiara.

Kopa: Yeah, I remember how you dumped that coconut shell full of water on her head.

Kijani: And she chased me through the den and gave me a paw noogie.

Kopa: And it was hilarious too.

Kion: (sarcastic)Sure it was.

Kijani: Speaking of Kiara, where is she?

Meanwhile, Kiara is walking through the tall grass, chasing a butterfly while the other cubs would go out and pick flowers.

Kiara: Hey! Wait! Come back! I just wanna play! (She sees the butterfly land, and crouches to attack) Ahhh... the mighty hunter has cornered her prey. Errrrh!

Kiara's pounce takes her up the side of a small rise, from which she can see a distance into the Outlands.

Kiara: Whoa... cool! The Outlands! I wonder what's out there...

A rustling in the grass behind her draws Kiara's attention. She turns, and the grass separates.

Kiara: AH!

Timon and Pumbaa: AH!

Kiara is frightened backwards, and falls off the far side of the knoll into a pool below. Pumbaa gets set to leap after her and Timon jumps off just as he throws himself into the pool.

Pumbaa: Oooh, don't worry, Kiara- Uncle Pumbaa's comin'!

Timon: Oh, no... ohh... uh... uh... let's see, uh... (in-character as though talking to Simba) Gee, Simba. The good news is, we found your daughter. The bad news is, we dropped a warthog on her. Is... there a problem with that?

Pumbaa: (looking from side to side in the water) Kiara? Kiara?

Timon: Pumbaa! Let me define "babysitting"!

Pumbaa: (He finds Kiara underneath him, spluttering, and he gets off.) Sorry. Now, Princess Kiara... as Simba's daughter, you know better than to go off all alone. You could have been hurt!

Kiara: But... but...

Timon: Hurt! Oh... Simba would kill us! You didn't slip a disc, did you?

Kiara: B-but-

Timon checks to make sure Kiara is intact. Kopa, Kion, Kijani and the others looked at her.

Kijani: There you are, big sis.

Timon: Catch a fever? Get a hangnail?

Timon is examining her claws; she pulls her paw away.

Kiara, Kopa, Kion and Kijani: Timon...

Timon: I had one once.

Pumbaa: Very painful.

Timon: Excruciating!

Timon picks a fern branch and over Kiara's head, shading her.

Timon: Darling... with your complexion, you should stay out of the sun. (She swats the branch away) What!? Do you wanna wrinkle?

The boys: Hehehehe!

Kiara: Would someone please just listen to me?

Timon: I'm sorry; I wasn't listening. Did you say something, Princess?

Kiara: I'm not just a princess, you know. That's only half of who I am!

Pumbaa: Oh, uh... who's the other half?

Kijani: Well, I have an other half and that's pranking him! (Snaps finger on his brother)

Kopa: Hey!

Kiara: Uh... well, I, uh... um...

Timon: Well, while you're figuring it out, let's eat. (He snaps his fingers, and Pumbaa lifts up a log) Grubs!

Pumbaa: The other white meat!

Timon: (offering a leaf-full of grubs to the siblings) And so high in protein!

Kiara: Eww! Gross!

Kijani: Yuck!

Kion: Eyy!

Kopa: Errrrhhhhh!

Timon: No? How 'bout you, big boy?

Pumbaa: (sniff) Aaah. Love grubs!

Timon: Not like...

Pumbaa: Love!

Timon tosses a bug into Pumbaa's mouth; he crunches and coughs on it a little, then hiccups and spits the fragments back onto the leaf, coating them all with saliva.

Timon: (grossed out) Ohhh.. you always do that! You take a bite out of every one, and then put it back. It drives me crazy!

Pumbaa: But you can't tell from the outside which are the real slimy ones!

Timon: Slimy? Pumbaa... my corpulent compadre. It's the crunchy ones that make the meal!

Pumbaa: Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Slimy!... Less filling!... Less filling!... Less filling!... Less filling!... Low fat!

Timon: Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Crunchy!... Tastes good!... Tastes good!... Tastes good!... Tastes good!... Check, please!

Kijani: Let's ditch them, dude!

Kiara and the others wanders off while they argue. While the boys are playing with the other baby animals, she crosses a river on a log, and tumbles off- directly into Kovu, bowling him over. He snarls at her confrontationally, and continues growling.

Kovu: Who are you, Pride lander?

He continues growling and snarling at her.

Kovu: What are you doing?

Kiara: My father says to never turn your back on an Outsider!

Kovu: You always do what Daddy says?

Kiara: No!

Kovu: Bet you do. Bet you're Daddy's little girl! Ha ha! (He moves away, hopping on logs across the river) An Outsider doesn't need anybody. I take care of myself!

Kiara: (awed, following him across) Really?

(But the crocodiles started attacking them as they crossed the river)

Kovu: That was a close one.

Kiara: Yeah...

But the crocodiles they are sitting on rise up and reveal themselves as more crocodile heads.

Both: Ah!...

Kiara runs up a tree limb, getting out of reach; however, Kovu runs past her, leaping from crocodile to crocodile down the river.

Kiara: Hey.. what about me?

Kovu: I'll distract them. Run!

Kovu slips off the last crocodile into the water; as he comes up, gasping for air, the crocodiles loom over him.

Kiara: (swiping at crocodiles from her branch) Look out!

Kovu is paralyzed by fright; the gaping mouth in front of him is suddenly clamped shut by Kiara leaping on top of it.

Kiara: Move it!

The two cubs scramble up a branch and up onto the bank, out of reach of danger. From the top, they pant and rest for a few moments, then move back to look over the edge. The crocodiles are massing below, furious at being cheated of their meal.

Kiara: I did it... I did it! (she blew raspberries at the crocodiles below)

Kovu: Hah!

The cubs move back from the edge and recount their adventure.

Kiara: Whoa, man- did you see the size of those teeth? They were goin' "Rrrarrarrarr" ... (rolls over on her back and laughs) He was just totally eatin' you up right there, and I jumped on his head- and I bopped him so good-

What they didn't know is that someone is crouching in the grass some distance away.

Kiara: We make such a good team! And you... you were really brave!

Kovu: Yeah... you were pretty brave too. My name's Kovu.

Kiara: I'm Kiara.

She crouches down playfully, waving her tail; she reaches out and bats him

Kiara: Tag! You're it!

She jumps back, laughing; instead of chasing, Kovu just looks at her silently. She tries again.

Kiara: Tag! You're it! You're it!

Kovu: (Still no response; he just stares at her.)

Kiara: Hello? You run, I tag... get it? What's the matter? Don't you know how to play? I usually play it with my friends and my brothers.

Getting an idea, she crouches down and goes back to playing his style, with bared teeth and growls. He gets the idea and mock-growls back, but suddenly he finds himself growling at Simba's leg. Simba roars, and the unknown lioness jumps out of the grass and roars back.

Simba: Zira.

Zira: Simba!

Nala, Timon, and Pumbaa as well as Kiara's friends, the Lion Guard, Kopa, Kion and Kijani arrive behind Simba, with other lionesses.

Zira: Nala.

Nala: Zira.

Timon: Timon, Pumbaa. Great. Now that we all know each other.. GET OUTTA OUR PRIDE LANDS!

Zira: Your Pride Lands? (She snarls, making Timon leap backwards over Pumbaa's head in fear) These lands belonged to Scar.

Simba: I banished you from the Pride Lands for killing man! Now you and your young cub... get out!

Zira: Oh... haven't you met my son, Kovu? He was hand-chosen by Scar to follow in his pawprints... and become King!

Timon: PTTTT! That's not a king... that's a fuzzy maraca!

Kijani: Ew!

Zira: Kovu was the last born before you exiled us to the Outlands, where we have little food, less water...

Simba: You know the penalty for returning to the Pride Lands!

Zira: But the child does not! However... if you need your pound of flesh... here.

(She nudges Kovu toward Simba, daring him to show either ruthlessness or cowardice.)

Simba: Take him and get out. We're finished here.

(Simba picks up Kiara in his teeth. Zira walks over to Simba and looks down at a terrified Kiara and her brothers.)

Zira: Oh no, Simba... we have barely begun. (Looks at Kijani) I see you take in humans here. How do they taste, pretty good I hope. (Snarls at Kijani)

Simba: (roars) Don't you ever come near my children again!

Zira: Child? you made this thing one of your own? You're even weaker than I thought, like I said, we have barely begun.

She glares wickedly at the siblings, then turns and picks up Kovu in her jaws. He and Kiara watch each other dangle as they move apart.

Kiara: Bye...

Kovu: Bye...

As they are going back home, Kijani felt guilty and anxious.

Kijani: Who is that cub?

Kiara: Kovu

Kijani: I'm sorry I called him Ewww.

Kiara: It's okay.

As they are ready to go back to the pride rock, Simba asks Nala and the boys as well as the lionesses to go ahead while he would have a word with the eldest cub herself. In Pride Rock, Kijani was so confused.

Mariposa: What is wrong, dear Prince?

Kijani: I didn't know that the lioness we confronted wants to eat me.

Creative: That's Zira, Mom told me that she killed humans and that's why she is banished from Pride Rock.

Kijani: What are humans?

Applejack: A furless and tailless monkey. They can be found in places filled with giant stones, large trees and medium sized rocks.

Twilight: Right, but we never seen them around here.

Kijani: I am the only one who lives here. I am so different from everyone and some of our kind wants to eat me for dinner. Why is this so complicating, mother?

Nala: Well, anyone evil living in the outlands wanted to eat man.

Celestia: But not all livings are evil, we didn't eat you, did we?

Kijani: No.

Sarabi: One day, he'll understand something about his past, Cel. Give him a break.