A/N: Hey, everybody, guess who's back from Disney World? That's right, it's me, Orangebird124! I had the most, absolute time of my life at Disney World and not only did I get to go on the rides and the attractions, but I got to meet most of the Disney characters and I especially got to meet Joy and Sadness at Epcot! Can you all guess what time it is? If you guessed the next Anger/Sadness one-shot, then you're correct! Before I left, I said in the last chapter that I was gonna make it up to you guys by writing a funny TearBrick one-shot. Well, here it is, however, this one is going to contain loads of romance, but with lots of humor! I hope you all enjoy this as much as I do and away we'll go!
Disclaimer: I don't own "Inside Out". Sorry, but that's the way the cookie crumbles!
Chapter 14
Tickle Fight
Sadness woke up in her bed as she yawned and stretched the next morning. She got out of bed and put her clothes on along with her round glasses. Then, she looked at her reflection in the mirror and sighed to herself, ready for another day at work.
"I wonder how terrible life will be today…" Sadness mumbled quietly, as she walked down the stairs to the main room.
Halfway down the stairs, Sadness noticed Anger reading his daily newspaper on the couch and at one of the rarest times, she smiled. It wasn't a usual, weak smile; it was a smile like Joy had on her face. She never thought she'd do this, but seeing that serious expression on Anger's face made her smirk and she had something planned going on in her head.
"Or maybe not…" the teardrop grinned.
Once Sadness finally made it down to the main room, she slowly peeked behind the couch and glanced over at the brick who was still reading his newspaper. She quickly tickled him under his arm and just as he gasped and turned around, she was gone.
"Alright, who's playing tricks on me again?" asked Anger in annoyance, as he clenched his fists. "Was that you, Disgust?"
"I wasn't even near you, Mr. Smarty Pants!" called Disgust, slightly agitated.
Anger shrugged to himself as he continued to read his newspaper. The blue Emotion quietly giggled to herself behind the couch. She had never done this before since she was always too sad to tickle anyone. Sadness popped up and tickled Anger again, only this time he noticed her as he exclaimed and accidentally threw his newspaper in the air and almost fell off the couch.
"Sadness, what do you think you're doing?!" hollered Anger, looking all agitated. "You just made me throw my newspaper in the air!"
"Oops, sorry about that, Anger." the teardrop apologized before she grinned for the second time. "You look a little grouchy, so I think you may need a tickle!"
Sadness was about to tickle him for the third time when he firmly grabbed her arm. It wasn't too tight since he didn't want to hurt her, but it was just firmly.
"Sadness, stop. I'm not ticklish and I don't wanna play with you." Anger grunted in annoyance. "Now please get to work because we need to stay on task for Riley."
"Okay, I'll just leave you alone." Sadness sighed in defeat, as she started to walk away from him.
The brick looked up from reading his newspaper and stopped as he watched Sadness walking over to the console. Once he placed it down on the couch cushion, a mischievous smile grew on his face. He wanted to get her back. Anger hopped off the couch, sped walked towards Sadness and pinned her to the ground before she could get to the console. She was surprised at him and stared into his red eyes.
"Anger, I thought you said that you didn't want to play." the teardrop said.
"I changed my mind, kid." Anger replied, grinning. "Now you're gonna get it."
Suddenly, he started to tickle her mercilessly and that's what sent Sadness into hysterics.
"NO, NO, NO, ANGER! HAHAHA!" laughed Sadness hysterically. "THAT TICKLES! LET ME GO!"
"Nope, you're not going anywhere, kid!" cackled Anger playfully, as he tickled her tummy. "You belong to me!"
"Oh, yeah?" Sadness challenged, still laughing.
Luckily, the blue Emotion managed to break out of Anger's strong grip and pushed him to the ground on his back.
"Oh, heavens…" he mumbled.
"Now let me find that ticklish spot of yours." Sadness teased, as she started to tickle him.
"C-Cut it out! Please, I'm begging you! HAHAHA!" laughed Anger uncontrollably, as he started to squirm around.
"Or maybe perhaps it's your kneecaps!" she chuckled, as she reached down to his kneecaps.
Just as she started tickling his kneecaps, the brick burst out laughing really hard because that's where his weakest and ticklish spot was. He wouldn't let anyone, not even Joy tickle his kneecaps. But it was too late and Sadness had already found it.
"NO, NOT THERE! HAHAHAHA!" the brick roared with laughter. "LEAVE MY KNEECAPS ALONE, KIDDO! YOU KNOW HOW TICKLISH I AM OVER THERE!"
He tried to get the blue Emotion back, but she kept his body to the ground. They didn't even realize that Joy was standing right next to them, giggling quietly, until Sadness saw her and stopped tickling Anger. The laughter quickly died down.
"Joy!" Sadness and Anger cried in unison.
"Well, I'll be darned! I saw you two playing around with each other and…" chuckled Joy, until the brick cut her off.
"We weren't playing around with each other, Joy!" he snapped in denial. "Sadness tickled me when I was in the middle of reading my newspaper!"
The teardrop quickly pulled her sweater up over her head and exclaimed, "Please leave me alone! I won't do that ever again!"
Then she quickly ran over to her favorite corner, curled up in a ball and cried quietly to herself in embarrassment with her cheeks blushing. Anger frowned at her before he shook it off and turned back to Joy, who felt sorry for the blue Emotion.
"Oops, I did something wrong again, didn't I?" the star said, looking all guilty. "I didn't mean to, though. Mistakes happen."
"You really shouldn't have done that and you embarrassed me and Sadness!" scolded Anger, as he pointed his finger at her. "Why would you do something like that?"
Joy took a deep breath and tried to explain, "Please listen to me, Anger. I would never embarrass you two and it's just that I found it really cute and rare when…"
However, Anger was against that and refused to listen to her as he walked away from her and yelled angrily, "No, I don't wanna hear it! Now back off so we can get to work!"
The star sighed in defeat as she gave up and left Sadness alone for a while before she calmed her down later on. That late afternoon, Anger was at the console, controlling Riley during her hockey game. Sadness saw him and she quickly checked to see if Joy, Disgust or Fear were watching. Luckily, they were too busy cheering on Riley.
"Now's my chance." whispered Sadness, as she smirked again.
The teardrop slowly tip toed behind Anger and she tickled his kneecaps once again which caused him to jump up in the air. He turned around and saw Sadness standing there, trying not to giggle. Then, Anger quickly looked back at the monitor and saw that another hockey player stole the puck from Riley which caused her to scowl and chase after it.
"Sadness, there is a time and a place for a tickle fight and me trying to get that puck to the goal isn't one of them." the brick reprimanded, as he tried not to sound too harshly.
"Sorry, Anger." Sadness apologized solemnly.
She walked over to the couch and sat down with her coworkers just as they cheered loudly after Riley scored her goal. Sadness kept on thinking to herself as she watched Anger take control with fire blowing out from the top of his head at the next round.
What's wrong with me today? I feel like I'm not in my usual, pessimistic mood. the blue Emotion thought to herself worriedly. Or maybe I must have changed since we hit that puberty button.
Sadness didn't really want to think about it, but it wouldn't go away. Has she really changed? She sighed to herself and even though she stayed on task throughout Riley's day, Sadness could not stop staring at Anger.
That evening, when Riley fell asleep, Sadness went on Dream Duty. She leaned against the console as she watched the dream on the monitor. It was one of Riley's reruns which got her bored in twenty minutes, so she got up and walked to one of the shelves that had the Mind Manuals. Sadness pulled out one of the books and began reading it.
"Long Term Memory Retrieval volume 50, huh." she mumbled to herself.
The teardrop flipped through another page and she didn't notice that Anger was walking down the stairs. When he got to the main room, he looked at the screen and saw that the dream finished playing and it was now off. When he turned at the next corner, he spotted Sadness reading the Mind Manuals.
"Oh, there you are, kiddo." Anger finally spoke.
This got her attention as she put the book away and greeted slowly, "Hey, Anger…"
"What are you doing over there?" he said gruffly, as he walked over to her. "I thought you were doing Dream Duty."
"I was, but the dreams were reruns, so I got bored and I decided to go read some Mind Manuals." answered Sadness, as she twiddled around with her fingers.
"That's what I figured." Anger scoffed, before he took a deep breath. "Now, let me ask you a question. Why did you tickle me this morning?"
The blue Emotion quietly gasped as she covered her mouth. Oh, dear, now she was busted. She really hasn't been like herself all day ever since she had that tickle fight with him. Sadness didn't want to reveal her secret plan, but she had to be very honest with him, so she took a deep breath.
"Anger, I tickled you because I thought that it'd make you laugh since you're so serious and no offense, um, but angry all the time. Ever since I found your ticklish spot which was your kneecaps, I figured that you must be ticklish all this time." confessed Sadness sadly. "Please don't get mad, but, I also like you a lot."
The brick stared at her for a long time after what she had said. Was this really true? Did she really like him a lot? He noticed her shaking a little and placed his hands onto her shoulders gently and looked directly into her eyes.
"Sadness, when did you start acting like this?" asked Anger seriously, but in a calm tone of voice.
"Uh, since this morning when I saw you reading your newspaper." answered Sadness, as she scratched the back of her head. "Besides Joy, I feel like that you're a lot of fun to hang out with when you're not angry or when it's just you and me."
"You really mean that?" he asked, as his eyes widened.
"I guess." the blue Emotion replied unsurely. "I'm going to bed now."
Anger watched Sadness silently walk up the stairs and stood there, frozen. He couldn't believe that she liked him a lot ever since they had that tickle fight this morning. Usually, Anger wouldn't find anything funny except for when Fear gets hurt or Disgust throwing up in her brown paper bag. He turned to the kitchen and was about to go get a drink when suddenly,
"Oof!" he grunted.
Anger felt someone tackle him down to the ground and flipped him over on his back. It was Sadness and she was grinning down on him.
"You're back already?" the brick asked astonished.
"That's right. Only this time, I got you for good, Anger!" Sadness cackled with glee.
Sadness started to tickle his kneecaps once again and Anger burst out laughing really hard. He tried to swat her away, but couldn't quite concentrate hard enough due to her tickling.
"Good grief, kid! Don't touch my kneecaps!" Anger laughed.
"Too late because I already am!" teased Sadness, as she continued to tickle his kneecaps.
Realizing she wasn't going to stop anytime soon, he used a move he had once seen on television before and tickled her tummy which caused the teardrop to half laugh and half scream at the same time as she lost her balance and fell on her back. Sadness tried to get up, but Anger was too quick for her and he pinned her down. Then, he started to tickle her armpits and her tummy at the same time.
"STOP IT! HAHAHA! THAT TICKLES!" Sadness laughed uncontrollably, as tears of laughter began to stream down her face.
"Aw, you're laughing so hard you're crying!" teased Anger playfully, as he kept on tickling her. "That's what you get, kid! This is for revenge!"
Then, the brick tickled her sides and this made Sadness laugh even harder than ever before. Sadness struggled to break free by kicking around and trying to tickle him back, but failed due to his strong, but stubby hands. That was it. Anger had her trapped and she was officially done for. She gave up and went limp on the ground with Anger pinning down her chubby arms and smiling down on her in victory.
"Looks like I win this round." he announced triumphantly.
"No fair, Anger." the blue Emotion complained. "You cheated!"
"Too bad, so sad, kiddo, you're mine now." replied Anger, grinning, as he started to slowly lean down towards her face.
"Anger, what are you-?"
Before Sadness could finish her sentence, she felt his warm lips pressing against her lips. She blushed deep red and didn't fight back because it felt just right. Instead, she let him kiss her for only ten seconds before he pulled away.
"What did you do that for?" she asked shyly.
"Because I felt like it and I like you a lot too." answered Anger lovingly. "I think it's cute that you're a kid."
Sadness blushed a little bit harder as she giggled just a tiny bit. Most of the times after she found her true purpose, she loved it when Anger called her 'kid' because it was her very own special nickname.
"Thanks, and you're pretty cute when you're strong." the teardrop complimented sweetly.
Anger chuckled at that comment as he gently placed her arms above her head, still pinning them down. Then, he loosened his tie with his free hand and once he took it off, he tied her wrists together. But he didn't want to hurt her, so he only tied it gently.
"Here comes the fun part, kid." the brick said, as he cupped her face.
The teardrop smiled widely when suddenly, Anger started to kiss her cheeks and her forehead all around like crazy! Sadness couldn't help but burst into a fit of giggles. She was acting weird all day not because that she wanted to tickle Anger; it was that she was in love with him. She finally got what she wanted and Anger stopped kissing her face and looked down at her once again as he untied her wrists, freeing her as he placed his tie back on and tightened it. Then, they shared another soft passionate kiss on the lips which felt like it lasted forever, but this time, it only lasted for two minutes. They both smiled at each other as they got up.
"You know, it was fun while it lasted." Sadness said, still blushing.
"Hey, I'm sure we'll be able to do the tickle fight again soon. But…" said Anger, smiling, as he leaned into her and whispered, "We'll only do it when it's just you and me at the appropriate times. Let this be our little secret."
The teardrop giggled and whispered back, "Okay, Anger. I love you."
"I love you too, kiddo." Anger replied happily.
Now that Sadness had confessed her reason to Anger about why she was tickling him, she finally went back to her usual, negative self. What they didn't know was that Joy was taping the whole thing on her camera from the stairs.
"Now that's going on worldwide." Joy said quietly, but gladly to herself, after she stopped recording.
A/N: At last! Another TearBrick one-shot is over! Well, don't worry; the "Sadness and Anger Fluffs" is not over yet! Did you all miss me while I inactive? I know you did. So, what did you guys think of the chapter? Pretty funny and romantic, am I right? I did the best I could by making the scenes longer and realistic. In that case, reviews are greatly appreciated, but NOT rude, mean or offensive reviews! Since this story is turning out to be a success, I'm going to be working on a Valentine's Day one-shot since Valentine's Day is coming up. I hope you all liked this hilarious TearBrick one-shot and please do review, follow and favorite this chapter! Can't you guys see that I'm trying?
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