Welcome to my book of Warriors One-shots!

AN: I am open to any and all suggestions. If you're here, it's most likely because you read Warriors High. If you haven't, go there right now and read it please! Anyhow, thanks for clicking on this story. Enjoy.

Summary: Foxleap can't believe why she-cats are so hard to understand- his sister especially.

Pairings: brother-sister Foxleap/Icecloud, one-sided Icecloud/Lionblaze, implied Lionblaze/Cinderheart, Icecloud/Bumblestripe friendship.

Time: During Sunrise and The Fourth Apprentice.

Foxleap was mad.

He was padding through the forest one day, on a midnight stroll. The leaves crunched under his paws- it was leaf-fall, after all. He twitched his ears as the cool night wind ruffled his ginger pelt. With an unamused expression on his face, he padded over to the lakeshore as it came into view and sat down.

Foxleap glanced down at his reflection in the water. He eyed the scratch on his ear from earlier today. "She-cats!" The ginger tom hissed under his breath. "How will we ever understand them?"

He looked at his reflection once more. Staring back at him was a wide-eyed ginger tom with bright eyes, and a nick in his ear, courtesy of his raging sister. He shook his head and lay down on his side in the cool sand. Foxleap raised his gaze to the sky, littered with stars and the moon. Silverpelt.

Frustrated, Foxleap recalled the events of today.

"Icecloud!" Foxleap bounded into the clearing, energized and ready to go. "Let's go hunt!" They had been warriors for only a few sunrises, but the ginger tom was already enjoying the freedom. He nosed his way into the warrior's den and spotted his sister, her white pelt shining and her eyes closed. She rested her head in her paws and was obviously trying to sleep.

But Foxleap wouldn't have that. "Sister of mine! Let us be off!" Icecloud simply turned away from the sound.

Sighing, Foxleap trotted into the den, and after a second's pause, he pushed Icecloud over with his front paws. Spluttering, Icecloud woke. "Foxleap? What do you want?"

The ginger tom pouted. "You promised you'd go night hunting with me!"

"But I was just trying to sleep!" The white she-cat protested.

Foxleap bounded back to the entrance to the den. "But you promised!"

Icecloud turned her gaze to the clearing outside the den. Foxleap followed her gaze to see a golden tom, who was carrying two mice to the fresh kill pile outside the den. "…I wanted to hunt with Lionblaze."

Foxleap sighed. "That's just an excuse! And he just went hunting!"

"Oh. Right." Icecloud averted her eyes from the handsome tom.

Foxleap's jaw dropped. "Oh my StarClan. You like him, don't you?"

"I do not!" Icecloud hissed instinctively.

"Liar!"

"Foxleap, I don't!"

"Even if you do like him," Foxleap continued, "it's obvious he likes Cinderheart. Have you seen the two of them?"

"SHUT UP!" Icecloud swiped her paw, claws unsheathed, at Foxleap. The ginger tom ducked reflexively, shocked at his sister's sudden outburst. There was a hissing pain in his ear. He reached up his paw to feel it and brought it down, sticky with blood.

"What was that for?" Foxleap snapped.

Icecloud's eyes gleamed. "For- For-" She stomped her paws on the ground in frustration. "For being honest!" She turned and nuzzled herself back into her nest. Foxleap stormed out of the den, furious and confused.

The ginger tom checked his reflection again. The blood had dried around his ear, and he had given it a good wash on the way to the lake. Gathering some nearby feathers, he created a make-shift nest and decided to camp out by the lake for the night.

He was just nodding off when paw steps were heard on the beach.

"I'm sorry."

"Yeah, right," Foxleap grumbled. "And I'm sorry for being honest."

Icecloud sighed. "Look, ever heard what the elders say? Sometimes the truth hurts. Like when Hollyleaf told everyone at the gathering half a moon ago that Leafpool was her real mother."

Foxleap considered this. "Yeah, well, I just mentioned that Lionblaze liked Cinderheart. If you don't like Lionblaze like you said you didn't, then this shouldn't have been a problem." He buried his nose in his paws. She-cats are so confusing!

"Look, Foxleap," Icecloud snarled. "I came here to apologize for raging at you. Do you accept my apology or not?"

Foxleap sighed. "You know I can't stay mad at you."

Icecloud smiled.

Foxleap grinned back. "But you need to be my servant tomorrow."

"Foxleap!"

"Deal or no deal?"

"I'll tell Ferncloud you tried to feed Bumblepaw fox droppings," the white she-cat threatened.

Foxleap stared at her, wide-eyed. "You wouldn't."

"I would," Icecloud promised. "Bumblepaw doesn't deserve that happening ton him again."

"Fine." Foxleap stood up and walked over to his sister. "Shall we head back now?"

"We shall." And with that, the brother sister duo walked off to head back to their camp.