Furnado Animal Shelter; Monday [06/14].

[kawaii_complex]

This had been going amazingly well and smoothly at the shelter that day. She'd had a small lesson with the vet in taking care of a bird who'd injured his wing, there were some supplies to put away, and just some general administrative tasks that she took up because everything was fairly calm and quiet. It was just when she was finished gushing over a file on a new puppy they'd gotten in that she heard it, a break in the relative peacefulness, the sound of two cats growling and hissing at each other somewhere nearby, amping up to a fight.

Sakaki spurned into action, rushing forward to locate the fray-in-action, and called out, "No! Stop! You don't have to do this!"

She rushed forward, eager to halt the cats, their backs arched, their fur standing on end, their fangs bared maliciously toward each other...

...

The good news was, Sakaki had successfully managed to prevent the cats from fighting each other.

The bad (and honestly rather predictable news) was that this was because they'd found a new target instead, and it actually took a surprising amount of time to finally get the cats that had glomped onto her pleading hands to finally let go.

Furnado is open! (And very, very canon).

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[bookbeltof_love]

"Gooooooooooooood moooooooooooorning!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Nina burst through the door in a flurry of blonde curls and the pink ruffles of her skirt.

...

Nina blinked and took in the whole... thing that was going on...

"Um???????????"

[kawaii_complex]

"Yes, um," said Sakaki, currently on her knees with a cat glomped onto each hand, her eyes tight as she tried to push past the pain...which was, of course, nothing compared to the internal, emotional distress that came along with such sacrifice, "welcome to Furnado! I...I'll be with you in just--"

She barely contained a gasp as one of the cats decided to somehow find room to bite down even harder.

"...a minute," she finished weakly.

[bookbeltof_love]

"Do you need help??????????" Nina asked, edging closer so she could better see what was going on.

Okay, apparently she was being eaten by cats.

... Nina tried, and failed, to imagine Miss Dozy doing anything like that.

[kawaii_complex]

"It's....fine," said Sakaki, being brave against the pain, even as one of them started to move its head and growl a little bit. She felt it was important, though, to let them get all of this out of their system.

She shifted a little, so that she could look at Nina and hope the other girl through a sheen of tears in her eyes that she was simultaneously trying to blink back and ignore.

"How can we help you today?"

If it involved the use of Sakaki's hands, it might be a while.

[bookbeltof_love]

"I was, like, just going to go see if you had any new pet clothes in," Nina said, though she... wasn't going to do that with this situation.

"Maybe I can distract them?????????" she tried, going and grabbing a catnip mouse and then coming back. "What do you think??????????"

That was at least half to the cats.

[kawaii_complex]

"...pet...clothes?" asked Sakaki, staring up at Nina, because that was a very important, and, most of all, incredibly cute thing to be coming in for.

Suddenly, letting the cats on her hands work it out until they were ready to go didn't seem so tantamount, and she gave them a little shake as if to pry them loose.

Not nearly enough of a shake. One of them even bit down a little harder, though both of their attentions had shifted a little bit toward Nina.

"Maybe..." Sakaki suggested, "if you throw it?"

[bookbeltof_love]

"My sister's cat gets cold," she explained. "So clothes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

That was only a tiny part of why Nina bought Miss Dozy silly clothes.

She grinned, slightly, still rather concerned about the other girls injuries but... Nina wiggled the mouse by its tail enticingly. Come on, come on, come on...

And there she tossed it, sending the catnip mouse skittering across the floor.

[kawaii_complex]

"She gets....cold," Sakaki repeated, and she honestly didn't even notice when the cats finally released her prior hands from their treacherous maws to go tearing after the toy, because she was very much entranced by the image of a very un-Dozy-like cat all bundled up in winter gear, with the most adorable hat and a scarf combo, maybe some tiny little kitten mittens---

Sakaki had to lift her hands to cover her face, and that was when she remembered all the biting and the bleeding that was definitely happening now.

"Oh." She blinked at her hands a moment. "Hold on, let me get the bandages."