"Are you always like this?" Nikkohydrangea asked jokingly as he led the way.

Unlike his mom he didn't react with a grumpy attitude when a cat acted their age. Sure Buzzingpaw was a bit annoyingly energetic, but most newly made apprentices were. He definitely wasn't one of those apprentices ever, but he recognized in himself he wasn't normal. With each step he felt a bit more confident, sure he wasn't good at fighting or hunting, but he could still do both, he was average. If Buzzingpaw excelled he would just ask another cat to join him to mentor him more, this was going to be fine.

"Today I want you to just have fun, no chores and no training you don't want to. It's your first day so just enjoy yourself. While you do though think about what kind of chores you want to volunteer to do. You're going to have to do them, but I can get you any chore you want so if there's any that you specifically would hate I can make sure you never have to do them," He promised.

"Oh cool, I actually really like doing chores more than warrior work, but because of how many apprentices we have I hardly ever get to now that I'm not an initiate anymore," Nikkohydrangea admitted.

He waved his thick blue grey and white tail for the tom to follow him and walked him through the territory, "So there are a few important things to know. Like over there is the Janus den, no one's allowed in there unless their family of the janus so don't go unless one of them tells you to follow them. Everywhere else you can explore, but just keep in mind these lands are really open. It's easy for large birds to pick up cats so try and keep your eye on the sky at all times," He explained. Truthfully he hadn't heard of a case of a SunClan cat being carried away by a bird, but it was incredibly common in WinterClan and it made no sense for large birds not to hunt around these open parts.

"Unless there was somewhere specific you wanted to go we can maybe head closer to DayClan's borders? That's important to learn about too, they won't let you hunt over there, but sometimes their prey intrudes onto our territory so it's always fun getting a different flavor," He explained.

"You've never heard of them?" Nikkohydrangea asked in surprise, "Man I grew up with my mom telling me stories about how they would capture kits. Entire patrols would go after these birds, trying to get their children back, but the patrols wouldn't come back. Eventually these predatory hawks would take children and mothers would watch them leave because they know that the battle was lost the moment their paws left the ground. But there was one elder who said he survived, Leopardfrost. He said a patrol went to save him when he was a kit. That while they were fighting the hawk he slipped underneath the hawks nest. But he listened as the hawk tore cats flesh a part, feeding it to their young. The blood seeped beneath the nest and down onto Leopardkit. He was never a good warrior from that experience, he couldn't stand the sight of blood."

"But hey, you're mister tough guy you got this!" Nikkohydrangea said energetically as he walked off in the direction of the open fields. Hopefully they would spot a patrol and Buzzingpaw could get some experience in etiquette. SunClan got away with saying and doing anything to DayClan, but he noticed sometimes SunClan apprentices took it their pious a bit too far making them look bad for raising spoiled brats. But so far Buzzingpaw seemed to have a good attitude, he felt blessed for having such an upbeat apprentice even if he was energetic.

Across the border Fairytalepaw waved excitedly back at him, "HI!" He yelled he across to the other side.

Nikkohydrangea face palmed himself before wiping his paw off his face with a grin, "Great job at not being tense, but when we go to NightClan's border it's important to keep your head held high. DayClan patrols commonly are chatty, they'll ask a lot of personal questions, but they don't mean to  be offensive they're just," He winced back with a slight expression of fear, "Nice..." He shivered. "Anyways  DayClan's our ally and since their border is open you should go by there sometime. Plenty of outsiders visit there so you might find some good information on other clans or even make a valuable friend."

When he was an apprentice he had met plenty of outsiders despite living on top of a mountain. While none of them became life long friends he became fairly well educated on the world around him. He knew because of SunClan's cult like nature that they tended to isolate the youth, but he definitely didn't want Buzzingpaw growing up to be clueless about the other clans.

Nikkohydragena hadn't meant to make friends now, but this seemed like the perfect opportunity to ditch his new apprentice onto someone else and give himself a free day. Especially when he could just make something up like a cultural awareness lesson.

Fuzzyheart's ears swerved back with agitation, at this point SunClan was worse than Primal Instinct. Maybe he was old school, but allowing apprentices to be so cute and cuddly with each other even when they were allies still felt weird. "Don't you have enough SunClan friends?" Fuzzyheart said more than asked.

"I don't mind making new friends," Fairytalepaw reassured as he padded over to Buzzingpaw and sniffed him behind the ears.

"Wow, he crossed onto SunClan territory, now he's our," Nikkohydrangea said darkly.

"If you want to exchange the two I'm all for that," Fuzzyheart said with a bit of a laugh, "So what's your agenda today?" He asked to Buzzingpaw, a bit more relaxed now.

"Wow, making friends and enjoying yourself. And other clans say we're the pushover peace loving clan," Fuzzyheart marveled.

"Yeah, you pansy," Nikkohydrangea snorted out a bit of laughter after not being able to compose himself.

Fuzzyheart nudged Fairytalepaw right as he got into a play position, "I'm going to continue marking the border, come back before the sun goes down and don't cross onto their territory. And if he's a mouse brain and does cross onto your territory don't take him. You don't know who his parents are." He said before turning tail and continuing on his way.

Now Nikkohydrangea really just wanted to take Fairytalepaw. One of those knee jerk reactions that if he was told no he immediately wanted to do the opposite.

Fairytalepaw let out a playful growl as he swept a sheathed paw at Buzzingpaw.

"I guess this could be a perfect time for battle training. Maybe Fairytalepaw can show you a move he knows and then I'll teach you how to counter strike it," Nikkohydrangea said. Or at least he hoped he could figure out how to counter strike any move Fairytalepaw knew. He wasn't a great fighter, but at least if he sucked at teaching Buzzingpaw today he could blame it on weird DayClan combat moves.

"Yeah, that sounds great!" Fairytalepaw chirped, "My mom teaches me all kinds of moves. But I'll show you the one that is the most fun!"

Fairytalepaw circled around Buzzingpaw before ambushing him in the side. He managed to push Buzzingpaw off his paws and into a roll. He rolled with him three times before landing with both of Fairytalepaw's front paws pinning Buzzingpaw's back to the ground. However Fairytalepaw almost immediately slipped, but it was easy to see why. For some reason he was balling up his paws on an angle. He managed to catch himself last second, but held Buzzingpaw in place looking up at Nikkohydrangea excitedly to see how Buzzingpaw would get out of being pinned.

"Okay Buzzingpaw," Nikkohydrangea said slowly, trying to think of how he would get out of this. DayClan cats were light on their toes, which meant they were typically playing more defense than offense, caring more about their lives than the kill. "Okay Buzzingpaw, use your back legs and with all your might curve them around Fairytalepaws torso and then roll. You should be able to turn Fairytalepaw over and pin him down," He said hopefully. Fairytalepaw looked just a tiny bit older than Buzzingpaw, but he shouldn't be that much heavier so it should work.

Fairytalepaw definitely didn't expect himself to be thrust forward, which was why he was let off guard when he smacked into the other toms muzzle. His blue eyes widened as he apologetically got up, blushing profusely, "I'm sorry, I... Should have watched myself. I'm really bad at personal space. I'm sorry," He said, repeating his apology over and over to Buzzingpaw as he got off of him.

Nikkohydrangea's eye twitched slightly, watching the embarrassing moment play out. Although given who his apprentice was he wondered if he even cared. It reminded him of Bloodyrondo, all the signs he thought were there that wasn't. He pushed the thought of way and concentrated back on his apprentice, "Away. You needed to push him off of you not toward you, but hey, you accomplished the goal and made him get off of you. Might not be that bad in practice unless the guy chooses to bite your face off."