Y/npaw's P.O.V

I stared across the camp. We have taken in Thistlestar, Snowfur, and their litter of kits. I learned yesterday that Snowfur had originally kitted four kittens, but unfortunately two of them died. Thistlestar had snarled and called them weak. Whitepaw and I have the duty of watching over them until Sunstar came back from his patrol to watch them. I flicked my tail and laid down, tucking my paws under my chest. Whitepaw padded over and laid next to me. Thistlestar stood up and both of us jumped up immediately. "What are you doing?!" I growled. "Getting up to use the dirtplace tunnel. Is that okay?" He snapped. "No. Make your own dirtplace tunnel. Ours leads outside of the ravine." I growled and flexed my claws. He growled and sat back down. "Fine. Don't trust your own father." Thistlestar snarled at Whitepaw. "I renounced you as my parents when you attacked her." He snapped back. Six kits ran out of the nursery, stumbling over the other, they stumbled into Thistlestar's area and he snapped his teeth at them. Goldenshine's kits backed away but Mistykit, Mosskit, and Stonekit reached up and clawed his nose. He snarled and leaped at them but they moved nimbly out of the way and I jumped on him. "You don't have any authority in this clan. You don't have a right to your personal space. This is no longer your Clan. You are not supposed to be here yet we take you in anyway. You will respect us, kits, apprentices, elders, and medicine cat." He snapped his teeth at me and I slashed his nose again, leaving a deep gouge in his nose. "I said. You will respect us." I snarled, backing off of him. I watched him scramble to his paws and glare at me. Sunstar walked into the camp and padded over. "Whitepaw, Y/npaw. You're dismissed. I would like to talk to Snowfur." He flicked his tail to dismiss us and we walked off. "Whitepaw do you want to go hunting with me?" I asked, flicking his flank. Stonekit padded over and nudged me softly. I looked at him. "Can you teach me some battle moves before you leave? I want to get ahead of every other apprentice!" He sat, excited. "You and your littermates will be the only apprentices, and we're already ahead of you. When you become an apprentice, Whitepaw will be becoming a warrior and I'll only be in there for a few moons." I felt bad, the kit just wanted to be the best apprentice. "But I'm positive you'll be one of the best warriors ThunderClan will ever see!"

I walked away from the kits. I padded out of the Clan next to Whitepaw, his amber eyes lit up with rage. Smokekit and Wispkit bounded after us and I turned around and put my paw out to them, stopping them. "Go ahead Whitepaw, I'll catch up." He nodded at me and ran ahead. I pushed the kittens back and shook my head no. "You may be allowed out of your camp at home but you're in ThunderClan territory now so you have to go back to the camp because kits aren't allowed out of camp. If you stay here long enough then you can come out of camp with Whitepaw and I." I nudged the two kits back into the camp and followed Whitepaw out of the ravine. I found him laying on Sunningrocks. He looked up at me and purred softly, standing up and bounding over. I purred and nuzzled his cheek, bounding up onto the Sunningrocks and laid down on my side, staring at him. He bounced over and laid across from me, his amber eyes soft and attentive. "Sorry I got irritated earlier, Thistleclaw really annoys me, now anyways. I really hope Snowfur sees through his loving charade one of these days. I feel bad for her." He shook his head. I heard a soft yowl from the Riverclan border and rolled over, sitting up and licking my paw. "Y/npaw!" The cat called, leaping over to Sunningrocks and I bumped their flank. "What are you doing on Thunderclan territory, Silverpaw?" Whitepaw sat up quickly, shoving her away from me and glaring. I sighed. "Don't worry, Whitepaw. I met her on my first border patrol. We've been friends since. We're both going to the next Gathering!" I proclaimed excitedly. He glared at her, resting his tail on my shoulder. I nudged him and Silverpaw twitched her whiskers in amusement. "I'll let you two alone then, I'll see you in tomorrow night alright?" I nodded and nosed her cheek, watching her leap away. "What?" I glanced at Whitepaw. He growled. "Friends? With a Riverclan cat?! You saw what happened to Bluefur! She ended up becoming mates with him! And had his kits!" I sighed and shook my head. "Even if I was interested in her, the only way either of us would be able to have kits would be if one of us openly asked another clan cat to give us kits. I don't even want kits so, you have nothing to worry about." I pushed away from him. "You, don't want kits? Not even with me?" He sat and I looked at him. "Not even with you." I shook my head and walked off. He called after me. "Then I guess I'll have to find a different mate then!" He snapped. "We weren't mates in the first place, Whitepaw!" I called back, leaping into the ravine and going back into camp. I bounded into the warriors den and called for Patchfoot, backing out immediately after. I waited for him and he padded out, stretching. "I want to go to the training clearing." I yawned and followed him when he nodded his head.