"This is Misao, she is working at the animal shelter and owns 3 cats. Boots, Rowin, and Aries. Her best friend is Kaoru Kamiya the Owner of the Shelter. Over the past year the Shelter has gone into debt by not following the state regulations for euthanizing animals not adopted. Getting them both legal penalties and no relief for the additional costs of keeping the animals healthy. With the big city cranking out more abused and abandoned animals every day the girls are overwhelmed and now the City has chosen to sue them.
Following the case and prosecuting the shelter is Himura Firm. Kenshin is the top lawyer there his father started the company and having been raised as the successor he only handles the high blue blooded cases. When he was not in his office buried in paperwork. Right now what we are looking at is a Slaughter. These girls have no representation and Jail time for trying to help save lives seems rather absurd to me. Chancellor is there not another way the Shelter could gain and opportunity to save the animals?" The Chancellor tightened his grip on the pencil, it's pliable wood and graphite snapped and small fragments of dust floated down onto the cherry stained wood table. "Forgive me Master Saito." The attorney bowed and let herself out of the office. Saito had had his eyes on Kaoru for a long time and yet she had cleverly evaded him and with her unmatched cunning found ways to delay his pursuits and gain her own advantage. She had left him with no choice but to use the heartless money hungry scoundrel Himura. With regret he would shatter her dreams only to offer her his hand in order to receive her ultimate dream.
Kaoru spread out another king size bed sheet and wept. The lifeless bodies were stacked like firewood and there were at least 8 barrels full of both cats, dogs, and birds. All these animals that she couldn't save, these animals who sole purpose was to love and be loved. These poor animals whose last moments were with a stranger and filled with fear and endless moments of pain. Her tears could not replace the hole and ever growing shards of glass that ripped away at her heart. So much death, So much pain and all because Humans were gluttons. Their sins beyond repair, Pride, Envy, Sloth, Gluttony all these things gave way to the bountiful excuses she heard when families would bring their pets to her shelter, or any shelter. "I can't take care of them anymore; I'm moving and can't take them with me; I don't have time for them anymore; I didn't think it would get that big." Her weeping intensified, she had been doing this for 5 long years, fighting with the state, she lost her home and now stayed in a room at the shelter. Her nights consisted of 3 hours of sleep, what she wanted to prevent the kennel cough and warm the animals up to humans so that they would be more likely to find homes. Her favorite companions were Lucky and Bruce. Lucky was a recovering abuse victum. Because he was deaf and his owners didn't know it they beat him regularly and brought about his blindness. So now he could not see very well and was deaf. After his first 72 hours the state demanded he be "put to sleep". Kaoru fought them and even though the dog was not socialized she Adopted him and tended to him day and night, stimulating his eyes because he couldn't hear, and loving on him, giving him treats for his kindness to her and now he was the one love of her life. Bruce was a Cat, loving and never quiet, he was a bengal and very talkative, his owner could not afford his medicine he had cancer and even though it was curable the owner had no way to pay for the surgery and the following care to keep him stable. Kaoru found no reason to let the cat go just because of Cancer, the animal was no different than a human child. Innocent and loving life. Her children her babies, She shared them with her 2 children who were the Sun in her dark world. They fought very hard to raise money the past coming year to break them even and now she was finally going to be able to get the reservation and turn it into a rehab and home for animals without owners. A retreat and program to help fight overpopulation and study new ways to effectively spay and neuter animals in turn preventing most diseases and cancers.
Misao wiped her forehead. The animals had all been groomed and placed into the padded rooms to sleep. Here most of the animals were not in Kennels, but they were given rooms and once they had socialized well enough with other dogs and the staff they were allowed the pens. They could as a group or 'litter' sleep on padded pet beds and freely eat and drink. There were doggy doors that led to troughs and turf areas that made them feel like they were outside. The cat areas had litter boxes and a Catio area so that they felt they were apart of the world too. Misao knew Kaoru's pain all too well though. Her children had suffered alot when Kaoru's first husband died, their father. He was told there are ways he could be saved, that if he had a fighting chance they would take it and make sure that he could come home. Kaoru knowing the feeling of waiting her children crying over their father the one they loved so much, How he never came back. Explaining to them why; telling them that because she could not take care of him, because she hadn't done enough they lost him devastated her life as a whole and she left veternary medicine and swore that if she couldn't make a difference in peoples lives by educating them she would make a difference in the little things. She would take back the way people are allowed to decide their responsibility and take back their right to a person or animal's life. Misao had been there that day when she came into the room; Tonight was a night like that. Her beloved friends were slaughtered and she could do nothing, She had to leave because she would perish if she had bore witness to the nightmare. A Tear rolled down her cheek and she smiled sadly at Kaoru. "The kids know we love them and they are all cleaned and ready for bed. Me and the boys would like to go for drinks and ice-cream if you think your ready Miss Kaoru."
A Hand touched her shoulder and Kaoru felt warm love burn her lightly. "Mmm. Ok, apologize to my sons please Misao, tell them I'm getting cleaned up and if you'll lock up I'll meet you at the car. I'm talking to the agency in the morning from here on out there will be funeral services in honor of the animals and an obituary mounted on the wall when customers walk in to drop off their animal or come to adopt. We are going to make a difference."