Sakura takes Sasuke to his limits

A/N: A Sakura/Sasuke pairing. Meant to be a fluff story and nothing more.

This takes place right after the main story of Naruto, where Sakura and Sasuke are married. Doesn't include Naruto Gaiden.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto.

Sakura was lying comfortably in bed, her head resting on Sasuke's shoulder. She felt relaxed for the first time in what seemed like an eternity. "All the chores are finally done, Sarada is away at a friend's house and Sasuke is finally home with me for once", she thought to herself. "I wish everyday could be like this", she muttered quietly to Sasuke. Sasuke said nothing but smiled slightly and touched Sakura in the middle of her forehead, like he always did. On other days, Sakura wouldn't have minded this, but today, she felt slightly annoyed.

"Why do you still even have to go away for such long periods on time? It's been years that you've been doing this now" she said while rubbing his chest and kissing his neck, hoping this would make her get a proper response for once.

However, Sasuke simply said the same thing he always did when asked this, "Sakura…" and turned away.

"There must be some way I can make him want to stay here...it's like he doesn't even care about me" as she glanced over at her husband, looking at his blank face and then to his body, which was still covered with many scars and bruises from the Fourth Shinobi World War.

Lost in her thoughts, she snuggled closer to Sasuke as her hands were absentmindedly moving around his body.

She glanced over and saw a particularly strange looking bruise under Sasuke's right ribcage. Just as soon as she touched it, Sasuke abruptly jerks away from her while stifling a small laugh.

"Oh my god!" Sakura exclaimed. In all the years she knew Sasuke, the thought that Sasuke might be ticklish never crossed her mind, mainly because Sasuke never seemed like the type of person who was ticklish.

"You just hurt me, that's all. That bruise is still fresh." Sasuke claimed, but Sakura knew better at this point. After all the years they spent together, Sakura could generally tell when Sasuke was lying to her by now. Even if she couldn't, the thought that SASUKE, out of everyone she knew, might actually be ticklish, was too distracting and she wanted to test it out further.

Sakura's attitude suddenly changed from calm and relaxed to awake and aware. Most of all, she felt dominant. She wanted to be in control of her man for once, instead of just blindly and obediently listening to him, and this was the perfect opportunity.

"I'll have to be quick and smart about this", she thought. Sasuke was a lot stronger than her physically and could restrain her easily. "That is, unless he was extremely ticklish and I once I started tickling him, he wouldn't have the strength to throw me off".

She smiled at Sasuke and said, "Ok". Sasuke relaxed and Sakura then asked him, "So where did that bruise come from?"

"I was climbing and wasn't watching where I wa…" He suddenly got cut off when Sakura sat up, jumped on top of him and straddled him rather roughly. "Ouch! Sakura, what the he…" His eyes widened as he realized what Sakura was going to do.

"Sakura, no!" He immediately tried to throw her off but it was too late. All 10 of her fingers had found their way into Sasuke's sides, scratching, clawing and poking at them.

"AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Sasuke laughed loudly and uncontrollably. Sakura thought that Sasuke's laugh was very cute and she wanted to hear more of it. "I thought you said it was just a bruise, Sasuke." She found herself laughing alongside Sasuke. "So why are you laughing?" she taunted. The fact that Sasuke was a lot stronger than she was, and was also very well trained in Taijutsu, but still couldn't throw her off, made Sakura laugh even harder.

"SAAAAKKKKKKKU…" Sasuke couldn't finish saying what he wanted to say as he was too busy laughing to talk properly.

"Aww, look at you. You can't even speak properly. I had no idea I had married an overgrown baby", she exclaimed. Sasuke tried again to throw her off but the relentless tickling from his wife made it impossible.

After quite a bit of time had passed by from tickling Sasuke's sides, Sakura got bored. She stopped tickling Sasuke and let him catch his breath. Sasuke was much too tired at this point to say anything or to try to attempt to get Sakura off him.

As Sasuke was resting, Sakura was wondering to herself and started thinking about where else Sasuke might be ticklish and where his most ticklish spot was.

Without a word to Sasuke, she then attempted to tickle the next closest spot: his ribs. She jabbed a finger in between his ribs but Sasuke just said, "Ouch!"

Sakura realized that Sasuke was not ticklish in the ribs and that poking him there only made him angry. She also realized that it was only a matter of time before Sasuke would regain his strength and overpower her, ending her fun once and for all.

Refusing to let that happen, she quickly moved up to his armpits. She scratched quickly at his underarms, while praying that he was ticklish there.

As soon as Sakura's fingers reached his underarms, Sasuke bucked suddenly, tossing Sakura a couple of inches into the air. However, it was not enough to throw Sakura off of him and she grinned evilly, as she realized that she had come upon Sasuke's second ticklish spot. The best part was, judging from his reaction, he seemed even more ticklish here than on his sides.

"Nice try", Sakura teased.

"Sakura, don't!" Sasuke cried out before Sakura started tickling him again.

"Don't? But you love getting tickled!" She tickled his armpits ruthlessly and Sasuke started laughing louder than Sakura thought was possible from him. "Look at how much you are laughing! You must be having the time of your life, just like me! Isn't that right?"

"NNNNNNN…" Sakura tickled him even harder, so that he couldn't deny it. This continued on for a very long time. During that time, all Sasuke could do was laugh helplessly while Sakura mercilessly tickled him while laughing herself. Sasuke had tried to throw her off again during the tickling, but he was very much depleted of any strength and was not successful.

Finally, Sakura stopped. Sasuke immediately said, "Stop it, Sakura. You have gone way too far. Get off of me."

"No, I don't think so. You deserve this!"

"What do you mean?"

"You are never home. Sarada and I miss you a lot, yet you still ignore us. And the one time that you are here, you just dismiss me, like I'm just a stranger and not your wife!"

"Sakura, I told you. I can't spend more time with you and Sarada. I miss you too, but that's just the way it is"

"Ok, you know what? I have a deal for you. I'll stop tickling you right now if you promise to spend more time at home with us. And if you try to go back on this deal, and ignore me like you usually do, you'll come back to a much longer and unforgiving tickling session!"

Sasuke thought about this for a moment. "No, I can't do that. I'm sorry, Sakura but that's just the way it is".

"Ok, then. I'll simply have to do keep doing this then."

"Well I hate this!"

"No, you're not. Look at yourself. Sure, you look tired, and the places where I tickled you are red, but other than that, there are no signs of physical injury. Just one of your long journeys away from home causes more injuries than this tickling session. On top of that, you're laughing and smiling, so you clearly enjoy being tickled!"

This comment infuriated Sasuke. He still was too tired to move so he called Sakura a name that spouses should not call one another.

"It looks like you're angry, Sasuke. I don't like that at all. I'm going to start making you happy again". Sakura turned around so that she was facing Sasuke's feet and Sasuke could only see her back.

Sasuke instantly grew scared. "Sakura? I'm sorry I called you that. Please don….HAHAHAHAHA!" Sakura had placed her hands around Sasuke's thighs and started tickling them.

Any progress that Sasuke had made in regaining his strength was now gone. He laughed helplessly as Sakura squeezed and tickled his thighs.

"Who's a ticklish little boy? You are, aren't you? Aren't you, Sasuke?" Sakura quickly started laughing alongside her husband, although for an entirely different reason.

Sasuke's face grew red, both from the tickling and from being called a little boy. He wondered how he never knew how dominating and cruel his wife could be, seeing as she was having a lot of fun tickle torturing and taunting him.

After Sakura was done tickling his thighs, and the feeling of enjoyment she received from it was fading away, she sighed. She realized that she only had one more tickle spot to go to before she would have to let Sasuke go. Part of her wanted to let him go right now, as she could tell from looking at her husband that he was incredibly worn out, and she felt bad for him. However, the other part wanted to see this through and most of all, make sure she comes out of this with something positive in terms of the relationship. She wanted to make sure that Sasuke would say yes when she asked him if he would spend more time with her and Sarada.

"Ok Sasuke. I'm going to ask you one more time. Will you please spend more time with your loving family?"

This time, Sasuke paused before answering. However he still replied, "I can't, Sakura". Sakura noticed the pause as well as the lack of firmness in his answer. She thought to herself, "He is going to change his mind! All I need is one final push."

She glanced at Sasuke's feet. Sasuke followed her glance and quickly tried to withdraw his feet. This did not work, as they were currently trapped thanks to Sakura. Sakura laughed rather wickedly, which only panicked Sasuke even more.

"You really do not want your poor feet to be tickled, do you? Answer me!"

"They're really ticklish. Please just stop this". He drew in a breath. "Ok, I'll do it".

Sakura looked surprised and turned around. "Do what?"

"I will spend more time at home with you". He added in "I love you", to try to get Sakura away from his feet.

Sakura first thought that he was just saying this to stop her from tickling his feet but she realized that he wasn't lying.

"I love you too. And I can't wait to actually do couple things with you from now on." She felt incredible joy at this as she realized that she won. Her distant husband was actually listening to her for once.

"Ok. Can you get off me now?"

Sakura considered this at first and said, "Sure". Just as she was preparing to get off of Sasuke, she had second thoughts. She was still in a good mood from tickling Sasuke and did not want to it to go away just yet. She was also sure that his feet were going to be his most ticklish spot. That last thought excited her and made her feel more alive than she had in years.

"Actually…Sasuke, I was thinking I would finish this final spot. Just for the sake of it."

"NO!"

However, the choice was not his to make. Sakura turned back towards his feet. She hovered her hands over them for a few seconds, mentally tormenting Sasuke some more, before attacking.

Her fingers started scratching at his feet and this time, Sasuke screamed, rather than laughed. "AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Sakura started laughing rather wildly. "Oh my god, Sasuke. Screaming like a little girl? What's next, you're going to start crying?" she mocked.

"AHHHHHHHH!" Sasuke continued. He tried once again to get his feet away from Sakura but she wasn't going to let him go anywhere.

"Sorry Sasuke, you're not going anywhere until I say so!" "Now, why don't you just sit here and enjoy this!"

She spent what seemed like years tickling his feet. She went from scratching them to digging right into them.

When she decided that she had enough fun, she got off of Sasuke. "Well that was fun!" She looked over at her husband, who looked incredibly tired, like he had just run a 5 hour marathon without any breaks. She realized that the tickling experience she just forced on Sasuke must have been extremely draining on him but she knew it was worth it. She has seen a side to her lover that she had never seen before, and made it him a lot more likeable to Sakura. He also agreed to spend more time with her, which was something Sakura didn't think was possible just a few hours ago. From this point on, their relationship would be much better than it was before.