Day 3.
The next morning, Kotoko felt great again, and it even seemed like nothing had happened. She was happy as usual, and actually Naoki couldn't expect less from his optimistic wife.
Maybe because they made love again previous night, Naoki thought, and he tried not to smile when thinking back of that. Kotoko had changed into a cute dress, and was trying to flirt with him by turning around in front of him, showing her dress to him. He smiled, but continued reading the newspaper.
"Irie-kun, tonight we're going to the festival, remember?" Kotoko asked happily. "Yeah" Naoki replied. They were having breakfast, and Kotoko couldn't stop talking about the festival. She insisted on doing the folkdance with him, and she wanted to eat a lot of things. Naoki sighed, but finally smiled and nodded. He wasn't sure about the dance part though.
"So, what do you want to do before the festival?" Naoki asked. "Eh I don't know" Kotoko said, trying to think of something. "If we get dressed a little earlier, and dinner won't be needed because there'll be a lot of food, we can just stay here the midday?" Kotoko asked, and Naoki thought that might be a good idea. "We can play games, relax, watch TV and stuff.." Kotoko said, and Naoki nodded. "That's okay with me" He said with a smile.
Back in their room, Naoki called his mother to make sure everything was alright. Not because he wanted to, but it would be more trouble if he didn't, so he did. While he was calling, Kotoko took something out of her bag, he couldn't see what, jumped onto the bed with it, and stared at it.
When he finally hung up, he walked towards her. "What are you doing?" He asked. It seemed that he surprised her, because she squeaked and quickly hid the thing under her pillow. "Nothing!" She said with a smile. Naoki's left eye twitched. That surely could be everything, except for nothing. He reached under her pillow, but she quickly grabbed it again and held it away from him. This was going to be funny, she was no match for him. She crawled to the other side of the bed, and he jumped on the bed, reaching for her. He wrapped his arms around her waist, but couldn't reach the like-a-piece-of-paper-looking-thing in her hand.
Then he did something he actually had never done before, it just came up to him and it might help. He started to squeeze her sides, and got a reaction that actually sent chills down his spine. Kotoko shrieked and turned on her back, grabbing for his hands. "T-that tickles Irie-kun!" She giggled. Naoki took this opportunity to snatch the thing out of her hand, and found out that it was a picture of him when he was small, dressed like a girl. He glared at her, and saw her blush. "You're just so cute like that" She said innocently. He continued glaring at her, and then remembered how he got to snatch it away from her, and an evil grin appeared on his face. "Well…" He said, placing the picture on the nightstand beside the bed. "What?" Kotoko asked with a cute voice. "You are looking cute like this!" He said, and he suddenly reached out for her sides again, and started to tickle her.
Kotoko burst out in hysterical giggles, and she started to squirm and struggle hysterically. This was actually fun, Naoki had never tickled anyone in his life before. Sometimes he saw others tickle someone or each other, but never had he done it himself. And it was a pity he didn't find out the fun of it earlier. "Nooo! Hehehe stahahap dohoon't eeeheheeeek!!" Kotoko was making the weirdest but cutest sounds he ever heard, and he couldn't help but continue the torture.
He actually pitied her since he was too strong so she had no chance for escape. She was desperately trying to push his hands away, and squirmed and struggled like a retard XD. Anyway, she was laughing so she was having fun. He held her arms with one hand, and tickled her sides and ribs mercilessly with his other hand. From now on, he'll just tickle her when she needs to be teached a lesson. Just when he was thinking when, and when not tickling would come in handy, Kotoko managed to wriggle one arm free, and gave him a hard push. "Oi!" Naoki said surprised, as Kotoko tried to escape.
He caught her arm, pulled her back and pushed her against the wall. They were both panting, and Kotoko's face was all flushed. She was looking too cute, so he leaned in and kissed her. She kissed him back, and wrapped her arms around his neck. Then to Kotoko's horror Naoki started to tickle her again, and he found out that every spot on her body was ticklish. From her neck to her feet. He enjoyed it, but when he noticed she almost couldn't breathe anymore, he stopped and kissed her neck softly. "Please.. don't tell anyone I'm this ticklish" Kotoko whispered, panting from all the laughing. "I promise I won't" Naoki whispered back. His hands moved to her shoulders, and he slowly pulled down the straps of her dress. And then they made love in broad daylight.
"Are you ready?" Naoki asked Kotoko, who locked herself up in the bathroom. She was putting on her kimono and it had to be a surprise, but it actually took quite long. "Almost!" She answered. Naoki was already wearing his kimono. He thought back of the tickle scene, and about what happened after that… Man, since when did he become such a pervert, he should hold in himself, he thought. The door opened, and his heart skipped a beat. Kotoko was wearing a very cute white kimono with red flowers on it, and she looked beautiful. "You look beautiful" He said, managing to keep a straight expression. "Thanks, you too" She said with a blush, and she turned around. Naoki finally smiled at her."Well, shall we go then?"
"Hey Irie-kun! Let's eat takoyaki!" Kotoko said as she pulled him towards the takoyaki stand. "Fine fine, but don't pull my arm like that!" He said a little annoyed. They just arrived at the festival and Kotoko wanted to eat already. It was quite crowded, but not too crowded since there was a lot of space. They bought takoyaki and ate together. They were barely finished or Kotoko pulled him along with her towards the next thing she wanted to do: goldfish scooping. "Seriously.." Naoki sighed, as his wife childishly bent over the pool and tried to scoop the goldfish. She was clumsy, but to Naoki's disgust he still could carry the bag with her fish in it.
"So what's next?" He asked her. "I want to eat taiyaki!" She said, and Naoki raised his eyebrows. "But you just ate takoyaki!" He said, and Kotoko nodded. "But I'd like to have taiyaki now" She said. Naoki suddenly patted her butt softly. "Don't you eat too much, you'll get fat" He said seriously, but there was a slight smile on his face. "No I won't!" Kotoko pouted and gave him a playful push. After they had some taiyaki, Kotoko took part in a karaoke contest. She wasn't the best but she surprisingly wasn't bad.
To his disgust they finally arrived at the place where people were dancing the folkdance in couples. "Come on, Irie-kun!" Kotoko complained, pulling at his arm. "No way!" He barked with a red face. He couldn't dance! How embarrassing!"Ah, let me hold this for you, go on and dance, you two make a good couple!" A strange woman took the fish out of his hand, and smiled at him. "Did you hear that Irie-kun? She said we make a good couple! Now come on, let's dance!" Kotoko said happily as she pulled him along. And she did it, they danced the folkdance together!
Although Naoki was first too embarrassed, and Kotoko too clumsy (stepping on his feet and that kind of stuff), they finally managed to make a good dance. The woman gave them back their fish, and wished them good luck with their relation. How strange, but Kotoko liked it. There was something fishy about the woman, but Naoki didn't want to know, so he quickly pulled Kotoko along.
The woman seemed to be….
A very well disguised Mrs. Irie! "Mum, this time you really went too far" Yuuki said. He was wearing a kimono and a mask, so they won't have recognized his face. "I just wanted to make sure they were alright! And onii-chan told me that they would be going to the festival tonight so yeah.. that was my chance!" Mrs. Irie said. Yuuki sighed. "They sure are having fun" She said. Yuuki nodded, even he knew it; he had never seen his brother this happy. Well of course he was happy when he and Kotoko got together and all, but now he looked totally relaxed, amused, and in love :).
