Hey! This chapter is specifically for acornpounce! Hope it's good enough!

Rosekit's POV:

Weak sunlight was filtering into the nursery. She squirmed and felt just air beside her, where Echokit usually slept. She got up and looked around. Again. Echokit and Finchkit always crept out of the nursery at night and came back in the morning. She wanted to confront them, but she was scared. She could tell from the silence in the camp that the sun had only just risen. The dawn patrol must have left a while ago, however. She had listened to the older warriors talking and she knew that there was tension with RiverClan over Sunningrocks. She knew a lot of things that other kits didn't notice, she supposed it came from her quiet nature. She heard the leaves behind her rustle and she looked around. Finchkit and Echokit padded into the den, freezing when they saw her.

"Hi," she said quietly.

"Hi." Echokit mewed stiffly, while Finchkit just waved his tail breezily. "We got you some prey."

Finchkit gestured to a slightly scuffed and stale mouse. Echokit spoke again, "We got you some prey."

Rosekit guessed she was waiting for a thank you. Timidly, she nodded her thanks.

Echokit glanced around. "Is Dappleheart awake?"

"No."

"Okay."

Why were they keeping secrets from her? They were littermates! She thought indignantly. A small voice in her head replied. Because you'd probably tell on. She bristled. She may tell on for some things, but she wouldn't tell on without a good reason! Or would she?

They snuck off again, giggling. She watched as they approached Reedpaw, Bloompaw and Featherpaw. The apprentices waved their tails in greeting and then Reedpaw leaped at Finchkit, bowling him over. The two tussled while Echokit did her hunter's crouch for the other two. Rosekit suddenly felt very alone. Darting over to Dappleheart, she buried her muzzle in her mother's scruff. Dappleheart groaned and turned over in her nest.

Angrily, Rosekit stormed out of the nursery.

"Ow!" she cried as she stood on a thorn, hard.

Finchkit and Echokit glanced at her while Bloompaw tried unsuccessfully to stop giggling. Rosekit glared at them in anger, and that just made Bloompaw laugh harder.

Rosekit stalked over to the fresh-kill pile with her tail high. She nosed the remains of a sparrow over until she found a fresh mouse. She trudged back to the nursery with it and gave it to Dappleheart. She then gulped down the stale mouse and crept over to Finchkit and Echokit. She heard them arguing.

"It's bad enough that you know! We can't tell her, she'd tell!" Echokit was saying.

"Well, you told me," argued Finchkit.

"Yeah, because you were nosy enough to interfere and you already knew part of it!"

"It's not my fault you're going blind!"

"Take that back!"

"No! It's the truth, and I just happened to hear it!"

Rosekit couldn't listen anymore. She took a step back, right onto a twig.

"Oh," she muttered.

"Rosekit!" said Finchkit in surprise.

"Rosekit!" said Echokit in suspicion.

"Hi..." she said.

"Were you spying?" Echokit asked, straight to the point as always.

"Umm...no." Rosekit mewed unconvincingly.

Echokit sighed. "Finchkit, you explain. I'm going to my nest; I'm super tired."

Finchkit watched her go. "I wanted to tell you." he mewed quietly.

"What? That Echokit's going blind?" Rosekit meant it as a joke but he nodded slowly.

"Yeah."

"What?!" yelped Rosekit. "You were serious?"

He sighed heavily. "Yeah."

Does everyone have secrets? She wondered. Like Bloompaw. Because Rosekit was always listening, she knew most of the cats' secrets. But she didn't know this one. "Is that why you sneak out every night?"

"Yes."

"How does that help?"

"We train."

"Train?"

"So she can be a warrior."

"Oh."

"Hey, I know she's mad, but maybe you can help..?"

"I'll try," she replied shortly.

Bloompaw's POV:

She glanced around. Nobody was around. She heard Finchkit and Echokit and sighed. Those two, playing around all night. Sometimes she wondered why they didn't sleep. They were young, they needed sleep. Like me. She shook the nagging doubt away. Glancing around again, she crept out through the entrance and slipped among the trees. She spotted Sunningrocks and snuck up on the ginger mound of fur.

"Sandybank!" she mewed in delight.

"Wha-? Oh, Bloompaw. Hey!" her brother mrrowed in amusement. "Nice stalking."

"How's Poppypaw's training going?" she asked.

"Great, she learns the herbs really fast."

"Yeah, you told me last time."

"I wish we were in the same Clan." she murmured.

"Would you leave ThunderClan?"

"No..." she admitted.

"It's the same for me."

"But RiverClan isn't even your birth Clan."

"So you found out? What did Redfur say?"

She dropped her gaze. "Redfur's dead."

"What?!" he yelped. "When?"

"A...a long time ago..."

"Why didn't you tell me? She's our mother, for StarClan's sake. My mother."

"I know...but you had to train Poppypaw."

He glared at her. "Okay, well I'll see her tomorrow at the medicine cat meeting. StarClan knows why she didn't come before. Anyway, what did she say?"

"How do you know it was her who told me."

"You don't know how to lie, do you?"

"That's a good thing."

"Anyway."

"Anyw-oh, yes. She said that our father wanted to take you, but you fell in the river and you were rescued by RiverClan. You know what happened, you were rescued, apprenticed, given your full name..."

"And you were kept back from apprenticeship and from becoming a warrior because of injuries and general naughtiness." he finished. "So did she tell you who our father is?"

She paused. "No."

"I'm not convinced." Sandybank mewed, but she was already darting back to her territory.

"Bye," she called.

"Bye," he said half-heartedly, watching his sister go.

Rosekit's POV:

She had to get this right, impress her littermates for the first time. They thought she was weak...she'd show them. Echokit sat in the clearing, eyes closed. Rosekit crept forward, one paw-step at a time.

"Behind me." Echokit called without looking around. Rosekit stiffened. This would be harder than she thought.

Changing tactics, she crawled to a low-hanging tree. She softly climbed it and only moved when it creaked, making sure the wind was nowhere near her. She was confident that she wouldn't be heard.

"In the tree."

She gaped. "How?"

"Your breathing."

"How do you know it was me?"

"You were nervous, your breathing was fast and shallow and you were trying to breathe slowly, which was making you need more air. Finchkit's breathing was calm and relaxed."

Rosekit was impressed, but she was curious as well. "Would I hear all of this?"

Echokit paused. "I don't know. I mean, you could hear it but I'm interpreting everything I hear and scent so that it's easy to know who's who, and who's where, and what everyone is doing. It's like my instinct, since...you know."

"Are you noticing a difference in your eyesight?"

Echokit seemed uncomfortable. "There is a change, but it's so gradual I barely notice...like a moon ago I could see the leader's den from the nursery and now I can't make it out, and two moons ago I could see it quite clearly but last moon it was blurrier."

Rosekit fell quiet. "That must be hard."

She thought of how lucky she was to have good vision, in fact, it was better than Finchkit's. She thought of how brave Echokit was being, and how scary it must be to be blind. She suddenly wanted to run and press her muzzle against Echokit, like when they had been younger.

"Let's get back to the nursery." Echokit mewed after a long silence.

One question remains...can cats giggle? Probably not...oh well, this is Warriors. To be honest, cats can't shrug, so I've been trying to keep shrugging out of my story, so maybe I should stop giggling? Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

And snootsnoot, is it fine that I sort of added a bit to Bloompaw?

In case you didn't know, snootsnoot gave me Cedarflame and Bloompaw! Thanks!

Please review and please don't steal.