A/N: While making family trees for this story, I found a mistake in our allegiances for WindClan. It has been fixed, and the subsequent mistakes in Gingerkit's chapter from the incorrect allegiances have been corrected as well. They are small enough not to make any impact right now if you reread the chapter, but they will make a bigger difference later.

I am so sorry for all of the allegiance errors. The Bouquet and I have been working on this story for a while, and before we uploaded it to ff . net, we probably had to change the allegiances at least a half a dozen times because new Warrior books were released, as well as other alliegence problems we wanted to fix. If I have to change them again, I will probably be as annoyed as you will be!

Rainkit

"Hrmph!" I said.

Cherrytail sighed. "What is it now, Rainkit?" she asked.

"Nothing…" I muttered.

"You want to go to the medicine cat den again, don't you?" Cherrytail said.

"Yes! Yes Yes Yes!" I started bouncing around, wanting to go.

"Well you can't!" disagreed Harekit.

"Yeah! We want to go outside and watch Sagepaw and the other apprentices train!" meowed Yellowkit.

My siblings and I started bickering, and Cherrytail started to look frazzled. Finally, Sharpclaw strolled in. "What's all this noise? I can hear you guys all the way from the outside of the camp!"

"I want to go to the medicine cat den!" I said.

"And we want it watch the apprentices train!" my siblings countered.

"Well, Cherrytail, you can take Rainkit, and I can take Harekit and Yellowkit to the bottom of the gorge to see Sagepaw," he compromised.

"I can take Harekit and Yellowkit to the training area!" said Cherrytail. "You know that the crabgrass over there makes you sneeze."

"Yes, but I don't want everything getting riled up, and… you know…" Sharpclaw trailed off.

"I'm not a helpless kit!" she hissed.

"I understand, Cherrytail, and that is why I love you," Sharpclaw murmured, brushing his nose over my mother's. "You are independent, and you can take care of yourself. But I couldn't live with myself if anything happened to you, so please, just take everything easy. As a favor for me,"

"Fine," she purred, understanding, but still a bit annoyed.

I didn't get a thing that they just said, but I didn't really care about that at the moment. My paws immediately started padding towards the medicine cat den. My heart was lifting because I was going to go see Echosong, and she might teach me something new; at the same time, it was sinking, because I was worried about Frecklewish. She wasn't very fond of me. I wasn't sure why, but she just wasn't.

When I finally reached the narrow mouth of the cave, I scampered inside with my mother right behind me.

"Oh, hello Rainkit!" said Echosong, her greeting meeting my ears as I saw lift her head at the back of the den. "I haven't seen you in two days! How are you?"

"Good!... Where is Frecklewish?" I asked, hesitant.

"Oh, she is watching Sagepaw while he fake-battles. She wants to make sure that his leg doesn't pop out of its socket again."

Cherrytail cringed at that, remembering at what a hard time the apprentice had, healing his injured leg. Now, however, he is doing fine. I was so mad to hear that all of this happened before I was born. I wanted to learn how to pop a leg back in place!

The entire day, I was completely engrossed in working. So many cases came in, more than I have ever seen before. After a while, it seemed like one just melted into the other. I noticed later that my mother was gone. She probably knew I could get back to the Nursery on my own when I was ready.

One time, Nettlesplash came in with a stone lodged in his paw pad. I watched Echosong pry it out with her tooth, and then she put some ointment on them.

"Yarrow?" I enquired.

"Correct. Good job." Said Echosong.

Later, Shrewtooth came in to the den. "Look, I know that Tinycloud's kits won't be here for a while, but I still don't think her milk is coming properly," he said, shifting his weight form side to side as he glanced around the walls that were stock-piled with herbs, leaves, and berries.

Echosong rolled up a package of leafs and gave it to Shrewtooth.

"It's borage," she said. "It will help her produce her milk better."

"Thanks a lot!" he said

"Oh, and Shrewtooth?" Echosong added as he was walking out. "Stop worrying about every little thing that happens to Tinycloud. She is a strong she- cat. Your incessant fretting is stressing her out, and that is what was causing her flow to thin."

"Oh," he said a bit sheepishly.

Later, Tangle slowly padded into the den. He was complaining about his old bones.

"Rainkit, what helps aching joints?" Echosong asked.

"Goldenrod," I said. I have seen this many times before, so I knew what herb to use.

"I have also figured out that daisy leaves help as well," Echosong said. She directed her attention to Tangle. "How bad is your pain?" she asked.

"Terrible!" answered Tangle. "This is the worst I have ever had!"

"Okay then. Rainkit, chew the daisy and goldenrod into a poultice and apply it to Tangle's joints. I am going to check on Fallowfern."

As I did what Echosong said, I watched her check Fallowfern out of the corner of my eye. The she-cat had acquired a fever a few days before, and I wanted to see what Echosong did. When Tangle left, I spoke up. "I best be going. Cherrytail will wonder where I have been."

"Alright, Rainkit. Thank you, my little extra helper."

I padded back to the nursery, skirting Sparrowpelt, Bouncefire, Harveymoon, and Egg as they raced up the cliffside to go on a hunting patrol. When I finally got to the nursery, Harekit and Yellowkit were already sleeping, tired from their day of excitement. I knew that they would never understand that what I had done was way more fun than what they saw, so I didn't even bother waking them up to tell them what had happened in the medicine cat's den.

Cherrytail looked up. "How was your day?"

"Great!" I responded. I went on to explain everything I did. Just as I was about to tell her about Shrewtooth, I stopped talking, because I saw a pained expression on Cherrytail's face.

"You know you can't become the medicine cat apprentice, right Rainkit? Frecklewish is," she solemnly said, eyes glimmering with sadness for me.

I sighed. "Yes," I replied. "I know, I know."