Chapter 4
A/N: This chapter and chapter 5 are rated M, instead of T.
Sakura and Sasuke were lying in bed again after a long day spent at the local carnival. It was the most fun they had in a long time and was one of the many couple activities they had done together for quite a while now.
"So where do you want to go tomorrow?"
She moved closer to Sasuke, "Maybe the beach but I'm too tired now to think about it."
As Sakura tried to doze off, she had a feeling of déjà vu to a few weeks ago, where she and Sasuke were cozily resting in bed after a long, exciting and tiring day spent together. However, back then, those days were rare but now they were fairly common. She smiled at how much had changed and how Sasuke had even changed his mind about staying together with her and Sarada more often.
Sasuke noticed her smile and kissed her on the forehead. She blushed but took his face into her hands and pretty soon, they were making out passionately, their lips locked for what seemed like hours despite being exhausted from the activities from earlier today.
Just like a fall breeze after a warm sunny day, things cooled down after that for Sasuke. Sakura however, was still feeling feisty and tried to kiss Sasuke again but he turned away, signalling that he wanted to rest. This made Sakura feeling unsatisfied and pissed off a bit at Sasuke. She decided to let Sasuke rest and got off the bed to get some food. On the way back, she saw something from a while ago: the chains that Tenten gave her as a gift the last time her was here.
It had actually been a while since Sasuke had endured tickle torture at the hands of Sakura and she was still pissed off at Sasuke abandoning their intense and enjoyable make out session. She was also feeling aroused and also wanted to hear his contagious and cute laughter again. She decided to bring the chains up with her to the bedroom.
She nudged Sasuke and showed him the chains. She put on her cutest smile that she knew Sasuke couldn't resist. "Let's try something different." It had been a few weeks since Sakura had tied up and tickled Sasuke, and although that experience was quite humiliating and memorable for him, the time gap made him not suspect anything.
Sasuke looked like he wanted to but hesitantly asked, "Where did you get those from?"
"Tenten. She said it would help our love life", Sakura lied.
With Sakura dressed up in a way that left little to the imagination and smiling her cutest smile at him, Sasuke couldn't resist. He spread his arms and legs out so that Sakura could tie him properly to the bedposts. Sakura gently took his left arm and wrapped the chain around his wrist. She then secured the other end to the bedpost. Sasuke instinctively tried to remove his arm but the chain was surprisingly tight. Sakura giggled and Sasuke laughed nervously along. When she tried to repeat the same process with his other arm, Sasuke was hesitant at first, since he would be completely helpless and be left to Sakura's mercy. Sakura kissed him to reassure him and he decided to go along with it. After his arms were tied, Sakura went over to do his legs. During this time, she found it amusing how Sasuke still had no idea what was coming to him.
When she was done, she stood up to admire the situation she had created for herself: the chains were wrapped tightly around Sasuke's wrists and ankles and were tied to the bedposts. He tried to move even an inch but the chains did not budge.
"Are you ready?" she asked.
He nodded. She then straddled him and leaned forward so that Sasuke got a good view of her chest. She drew her head closer to Sasuke, beckoning him to come and kiss her. As she drew her head near to his, her hands sneakily reached near his underarms. As they were about to kiss, she quickly drew a line from the top of his armpits to the bottom, tickling him.
"Mmmm...AHHHH!" Sasuke laughed.
"Did you miss our tickling sessions, Sasuke?" Sakura teased.
"Sakura! Don't do this!"
She placed her hands around his sides and squeezed, causing him to squirm and laugh.
"Don't do what? That?"
"S-sa-a-a-a!" Sasuke found himself unable to speak yet again.
"Alright Sasuke, that was just the warm-up. The real fun will begin now!"
Sasuke knew from experience that he was doomed. He couldn't stop Sakura from tickling him when he wasn't being restrained by chains, so how was he supposed to escape now? Begging wouldn't help him either as he knew Sakura had a sadistic side that only got motivated even further when he begged for mercy.
He only had one choice: he had to not laugh and give in to her merciless tickling. If he held out long enough, she might believe that he wasn't that ticklish anymore and stop.
"Sakura, after what I endured from a few weeks ago, I've grown a resistance to your tickling now. I won't be as ticklish as before. I only laughed now because you caught me by surprise."
"Really?" Sakura locked her eyes with his.
"Yes."
Sakura giggled like a schoolgirl. "We'll just see about that."
She lightly placed both her hands on Sasuke's tummy and left them there, observing Sasuke's face for a reaction. Sasuke found even this slight touch to be ticklish but he resisted showing any sort of emotion as he desperately did not want to be tickled again by Sakura especially when he was completely helpless this time due to the restraints.
Sakura smirked and then lightly scribbled her fingers across his stomach.
"MM..." Sasuke held back laughter as hard as he could. Sakura observed his face which managed to compress his smile back inside. However, she noticed his body shiver away from her slightly. She grinned devilishly and asked, "This is your game now, Sasuke? You know you won't be able to hold it in."
Sasuke said nothing and remained concentrated on not laughing. Deep down inside, he knew she was right. He just wanted to buy enough time to bore Sakura before he completely lost control.
Sakura started scratching more ferociously now while taunting Sasuke, "I know you want to laugh, Sasuke! Let me hear that cute laughter of yours!"
Sasuke could feel his composure breaking with every second. At any time now, he knew that unless Sakura suddenly stopped, he would break down laughing harder than he ever had before.
Sakura increased the pressure of the tickling one last time and Sasuke broke down.
"MMMMMM-AHAAHAHAAHAHAHA!" he yelled.
"Aww, so you are still ticklish, Sasuke. How dare you lie to me?" as she moved on to poking his sides, startling Sasuke and making him laugh even harder.
"Looks like I'm going to have to punish you with even more tickle torture now!"
"NOOO...HAAHAHAHAHA!"
"Tickle, tickle, tickle" she said in a baby voice, making fun of Sasuke's predicament, while still squeezing his sides.
He bounced up and down, trying to throw Sakura off of him but it didn't work as Sakura was too determined to play with her tickle toy.
"WOOHOO!" Sakura cheered, enjoying the ride that Sasuke was giving her. She made the same noise earlier when they were on the fastest ride at the carnival and Sakura felt like she was having as much fun, if not more, right now.
"Laugh for me again! Again! And again!" she said each time she tickled Sasuke.
Eventually, she let Sasuke catch his breath.
"How are you finding this compared to last time? It must be even more fun now that you can't even struggle anymore."
Sasuke grew irritated, both at the fact that he had initially thought that Sakura tickling him was a thing of the past and that he was even more helpless than before, due to the chains binding his limbs tightly to the bed to prevent any form of resistance. She looked tauntingly at Sasuke, waiting for a response. He lost his composure at this and swore, which was something he hardly ever did, in front of Sakura at least.
"I don't want to hear you saying those words, Sasuke. I think I'll make you laugh so you can't say mean things like that again."
She got up and walked over to the other end of the bed, where his feet were secured. As soon as she got over there, Sasuke panicked and resumed struggling, only to once again not make any progress in getting loose. She grabbed his foot with one hand and demanded that he apologize.
"I'm sorry, Sakura. Please just let me go!"
She smiled at him kindly.
"Apology accepted."
He had a very brief moment of relief before he felt Sakura's fingers scratching and tickling his feet once more.
He dissolved into laughter this time and yelled.
"NOOOOOOO!"
Sakura moved her fingers quickly and then slowly then randomly alternating between the two speeds, making her tickling unpredictable and thus, more torturous to Sasuke.
He started jerking about, as if he was undergoing an electric shock. Sakura paid no attention to this.
"AHAHAAHAHAHAHA!"
Sasuke's legs started to spasm and tried to get away from Sakura's hands but it was no use.
"STTOOOPPPP" he managed to yell out before he started to roar with laughter again.
"Stop? Are you joking, Sasuke? This is just too much fun, I don't think I'll ever stop!"
Sakura never wavered and kept right on tickling Sasuke, determined to break him and reduce him to nothing but a heap of laughter. Sasuke thought he was going to go mad from all the tickling he was receiving. Sakura didn't want to go overboard, however, and stopped.
"Alright, you can have a longer rest this time, baby. I'm almost done anyways."
"Can't we just stop this? You're making me go insane."
"Don't be selfish, Sasuke. I have hobbies too, you know, and tickling you is one of them! And don't pretend you don't enjoy it!"
Sasuke started to protest but the thought that he was still completely at her mercy popped into his head. If she wanted, she could torture him for days but she wouldn't do that unless she was pissed off at him. He decided to keep his mouth shut and just endure through the rest of it.
"Aww, you're learning to only use your mouth for laughing and not for talking back to me. What a good boy you are, Sasuke". She ruffled his hair like a pet dog. Sasuke's face flushed red with embarrassment but he still decided to say nothing.
She went over to the front of the bed, where Sasuke's head and wrists were. She looked fondly at his biceps, which looked incredibly strong, due to the vast amounts of training Sasuke had done over the years.
She grinned and added, "It's a shame that no amount of physical strength will help you escape from this predicament."
She moved her hands over to Sasuke's armpits and Sasuke instinctively tried to cover them up by moving his arms downwards. The chains still held Sasuke as tightly as they had at the start, despite his continuous struggling and prevented him from doing so. His armpits were completely exposed.
"God, I'm going to die if you tickle me the...HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
After last time, Sakura knew exactly how and where he should be tickled in order to produce the maximum effect. He couldn't resist at all this time and Sakura took complete advantage of this. He shrieked and howled and begged for mercy, managing to get out only one word per minute due to the non-stop tickling. He fought heavily against his bonds and tried using all his strength, despite how tired he was, to cover up even a fraction of his underarms, to gain any sort of break from this torture.
Sakura noticed him struggling harder than he had in years. His current struggling and fighting was comparable to his battle against Naruto at the end of the Fourth Shinobi World War. She snickered. "It's just tickling, Sasuke. What's wrong with you?" as her fingers continued kneading his armpits.
Sasuke was sweating heavily and his face was turning beet red, but he continued to thrash around pointlessly, even though the chains weren't loosening one bit.
"Where are you trying to go, Sasuke? I'm not done here yet!" she made fun of him even more.
Everytime Sasuke struggled and failed to get any sort of leverage against the bonds, Sakura mocked him.
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" This time it was Sakura who was laughing, although it was more like maniacal cackling, knowing she had her husband completely under her control.
It felt like forever for Sasuke but she eventually stopped. He was still gasping for breath and even continued randomly laughing, like he was still being tickled by Sakura.
She got up and announced, "I'm done tickling you for now."
"Then untie me!"
Sakura had a different idea. "No, Sasuke. This is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I'm not letting it go just like that."
Sasuke groaned. "S...so, what are you going to d...do?" he stuttered nervously.
"You don't want to know" she grinned. "I'll let you rest for a bit, babe. Then we can get started again."
Sasuke looked at her, pleading to her with his eyes but Sakura simply kissed him on the forehead and walked away...
