Chapter 5
Sasuke heard Sakura moving about downstairs and he wondered what Sakura was doing this time. Was she calling her friends over? She had done it before, and they all had some good laughs, including Sasuke, but it would seem a lot more inappropriate this time. After all, he was basically almost naked and tied to their bed. He worried about this but his thoughts started to drift off again to when he first interacted with Sakura seriously. She had been pestering him for a while but it wasn't until they had to form Team 7 together with Naruto, that he considered seeing her as something more than a nuisance. He smiled at those nostalgic thoughts and then raced onto the bell test. How exactly did they manage to pass the bell test set by Kakashi? It didn't matter. There was an entrancing look on the pinkette's face after they unexpectedly passed it but did Sasuke take any notice? He first thought he didn't but maybe he did...
A loud clang came from downstairs and distracted Sasuke from his thoughts.
"Sakura? What's going on?" he called out. Just as he expected, there was no reply.
Sasuke struggled one last time to escape from his restraints, which kept him tied to the bed. Of course, it was no use. Sasuke thought it was incredibly bizarre to see his wife like this. From those days on Team 7, up until now, Sakura was never very commanding and controlling. Sure, she had moments in her life where she had to speak up over Sasuke, as well as others such as Naruto, Kakashi and Tsunade, but this was a whole new personality change.
"Maybe this is all because of me since I refused to stay together with her despite me promising I would during our marriage. Maybe this is all just revenge." The very thought made him groan in despair, since if it was true, it was going to be a long time before Sakura stopped tickling him.
He then noticed Sakura walking back towards the room. She paused to drop off a box right outside the door, before walking in. Sasuke tried to glance inside the box, to see what it contained, but it was placed too far away.
"How's it going, Sasuke?" she asked in a honeyed voice.
"Err...well I was thinking of the day we were on Team 7 together. And other moments we spent together up until now."
"Aww, that's very sweet", she bent down to kiss Sasuke on the cheek.
"I was also wondering...are you okay? You seem a lot different than the old Sakura..." Sasuke was hoping that by saying this, Sakura would remember how timid and shy she was back then which would cause her revert to her kinder, gentler self and set Sasuke free.
Instead, she just laughed. "Change isn't always so bad, Sasuke. Don't you like this new, bolder me?"
"Umm..."
"I can see why you wouldn't", she giggled. "Besides, how do you know that this isn't the real me all along?"
"I somehow doubt that."
Sakura grew bored at their current conversation. She sat on the bed, next to Sasuke, and bounced up and down. "Let's stop talking about this. I think it's time for me to show you what I brought upstairs."
"Is it the key to these chains?" he said, while wriggling his arms causing the chains to clatter.
"AHAHAH! That's a good one! I'm not done with you yet, Sasuke."
"Can't we just talk?"
"I am going to talk. I'm going to tell you what I'm planning to do with you next."
Sasuke gulped and said nothing.
Sakura went outside and took something from the box.
"I think these will make our experience more enjoyable."
She slowly showed Sasuke what she was holding in her hand, torturing him with the suspense.
Sasuke's heart seemed to drop an inch every second and once he saw the feather that Sakura was holding in her hand, it seemed to have fell into a 100 foot pit.
"Sakura, no! NO!" he started struggling again despite still being sore in the arms from his previous struggling.
"C'mon, Sasuke, we've never tried these before. Let's try something new!"
"Sakura, no!" Sasuke repeated.
Sakura dropped the feather and bent down so that their faces were just inches from one another's.
She lightly grabbed the back of his hair, the way Sasuke liked it whenever they were making out. She nibbled on his ear, causing Sasuke to instantly stop panicking and start moaning quite loudly. She continued downwards to his neck, causing tingling sensations for Sasuke. She moved onto to gently biting his lips causing the loudest moan of all. Finally, she, quite forcefully, started making out with Sasuke, rather intensely.
"Her breathe smells so good" Sasuke thought while entranced. "It's sweet, like strawberries and fresh, like air on top of a mountain."
The whole world seemed to suddenly be removed other than them. No one and nothing else existed except for the two of them and that was all either of them needed. Both kept longing for more of the other and would never let them go.
While she was feeling every bit of Sasuke and was enjoying him and his intoxication, Sakura knew it had to end, like every other good thing in life. She stopped, causing Sasuke to sigh. However, Sasuke was still smiling, satisfied at Sakura's advances.
Sakura let him rest peacefully in his thoughts before she decided to snap him out of it. She quickly gave Sasuke a jolt to his sides by squeezing them with her hands causing him to instantly snap upwards.
"GAHHH!"
"Sorry Sasuke but it's time I brought you back to reality. You can't stay in dreamland forever."
Sasuke groaned but said nothing.
Sakura brought the feather out once more and exclaimed, "We are going to have so much fun now."
She brought the feather closer to Sasuke's feet, causing him to try and wriggle out with more and more desperation. Sakura snickered at his attempts to escape and quickly brushed the feather across his feet.
"SSSSSAAAAAAAAAAA..."was all Sasuke could get out at this point.
"Looks like these work even better than my fingers. Do you know why that is, Sasuke?" she sarcastically asked him.
Without waiting for a response, she brushed his feet for even longer this time. She tried moving it in different ways and on different areas of his feet, each causing the same, insane-sounding laughter from Sasuke.
"HAHAHAHAHAHA! STTOPPPPP!"
"And you thought you were a strong shinobi? How can you be when all it takes is a feather to break you down?"
Sasuke tried his hardest to escape but despite all his struggling, the bonds were still at their maximum durability.
"Why, I bet you're an even weaker shinobi than I am!"
"Am NOT!" Sasuke childishly yelled out. He couldn't help it as he was a competitive person, especially when it came to his competence as a shinobi.
Sakura stopped and grinned at him.
"Is that a challenge, Sasuke?"
"W...w..what do you mean?"
Sakura had a devious look on her face. "I'll give you five minutes of tickle torture. If you admit that you're weaker than me during that time, I'll stop and give you a good, long break before I continue again. If you last five minutes without admitting it, I will admit defeat instead" she proposed.
"Errr..."
"Ok, challenge accepted!"
Sakura went over to Sasuke's tummy.
"Will this tickle as much?"
"No!"
"We'll see about that!"
Sakura twirled the feather around Sasuke's navel causing convulsions, and of course, more laughter.
"HEHEHEHEHEHE! AHAHAAHAHA!"
"I love it when you're so helpless like this, Sasuke. Why couldn't you have been like this before?"
Sasuke was incredibly tempted to just admit defeat but he tried holding out as long as he could. He would never forgive himself if he admitted defeat, especially to Sakura.
"Wow, you made it through the first minute without giving up. Good for you, baby!"
Sakura increased the intensity of her tickling. She even decided to take her hand and reach up to tickle Sasuke under his arms while continuing to tickle his stomach with the feather.
"AHHH! NOOO...HAHAHAHA!"
"Kootchie Kootchie Koo! Tickle tickle tickle! Here comes the tickle monster!" Sakura giggled at herself and her mock baby voice.
Sasuke hated being teased like a baby and was tempted to admit defeat even more now. But he knew that if he admitted defeat, Sakura would make fun of him for admitting he was weaker than her. Not to mention, Sakura would just continue tormenting him after a short break that would surely do nothing for him.
Sakura noticed that Sasuke was almost broken. She quickly stopped to grab yet another feather, and started using that to tickle Sasuke too, since she noticed that Sasuke was more sensitive to feathers than her fingers. She brought the feathers to his neck and his underarms, circled them, like a vulture circles its prey, and then attacked like her life depended on it.
"NNOOOOOO! AHAHAAHAHAHA!"
Sasuke's screams only gave Sakura more incentive to continue.
"TTTTHAAAT'S ENNNOUUUGHHH!"
Sakura asked while still tickling him, "So do you admit defeat Sasuke?"
"YYYESSS!"
"Say the whole thing. Say that you admit defeat!"
She gave a quick kiss on a particularly ticklish area on his neck, causing him to laugh even harder.
"Do it!"
"III GGIIIIVVEEEE". Sasuke struggled heavily just to say those 2 words and took a whole 20 seconds to say them, but he managed to do it.
Sakura stopped tickling him.
"Did you really just say that? Am I dreaming? The great Sasuke Uchiha admitted that his wife is stronger than him?" she looked at him.
Sasuke's face turned red and he quickly grew humiliated. He also got angry with himself for being unable to even last 5 minutes of tickling.
"It's just tickling...what is wrong with me? Am I really that ticklish?" he thought.
Sakura, meanwhile, was too busy taking pleasure in her victory.
"Alright, as I promised, here's 5 minutes of rest, Sasuke. You've earned it. It's a difficult thing for someone as stubborn as yourself to admit that someone like me is stronger than them."
As Sasuke was on his well-deserved break, an idea suddenly came to Sakura's mind.
"Hey Sasuke. Do you want me to call my friends over? We can have fun like last time."
"NO! Don't do that, Sakura. Please...don't you think this is humiliating enough?"
Sakura took pity on him and sighed.
"Fine, I won't."
She kissed him on the lips and said "Honestly, the fact that you're ticklish doesn't make you less of a man. It's very cute that you're this ticklish. That's it."
Sasuke looked relieved and flustered.
"You're the best wife ever."
"I know." Sakura replied.
She gave Sasuke a couple of more minutes to rest while massaging his chest which helped Sasuke relax.
Sakura lost track of time and quickly glanced at the clock.
"Well now that I've let you relax, I think it's safe to resume tickling you now. As punishment for failing my test."
She placed her hands right above Sasuke in a tickling motion.
"Please have mercy!"
"Calm down, we're almost done. I'll let you out soon. Of course, since this is nearing its end, I'll have to make it more memorable by tickling you as hard as possible."
She brought herself to face Sasuke's feet and suddenly tickled his legs.
Like the previous times, Sasuke bucked and tried throwing Sakura but she was all too ready for it. She hardly moved and teased, "Wow, you really are weak, Sasuke."
She tried tickling from tickling under his knees to his thighs. Although different areas caused different amounts of laughter, Sakura still enjoyed tickling all of them equally.
Sasuke tried to even move his legs up by a fraction, to get the tiniest of breaks but the chains were too strong for him. Sakura was 100% in control, tickling his legs at all times.
"EHEHEHEHEHEHE!"
When Sakura grew bored of that, she moved on to his sides. She hesitated for a moment then quickly poked him. This caused a surprised, high pitched laughter to come out of Sasuke as he couldn't anticipate when Sakura would tickle him. She expertly started poking him from different angles. Although this type of tickling seemed more like the friendly sort of tickling that couples did when they were snuggled on the couch, Sakura was enjoying it in their current scenario nonetheless. She enjoyed making Sasuke dance to the tune of her fingers. She switched to squeezing his sides shortly thereafter, which seemed to be even more torturous to Sasuke.
Sakura visited every one of Sasuke's ticklish areas, right to their every last detail. She scratched at his underarms, fluttered her fingers on his neck and went back to his feet.
"God, not the feathers again. I'll do anything if you don't use them!"
"Anything you say? Are you sure?"
Sasuke nodded feverently.
Sakura gave Sasuke a smile before telling him, "You already are doing what I want. I want you to laugh. As hard as you can!"
She took the feathers and repeated what she did earlier to his feet. Each motion of her movements were fluid and continued flawlessly with each other, never giving poor Sasuke a single moment to rest.
"TEEHEHEHEHEHE! NOOOO...MMMMMMM...AHAHAHAHA!"
Finally, she sat up.
Mercifully, she took a key from her pocket and undid Sasuke's restraints.
They sat down together on the bed, quietly contemplating what had occurred over the past few hours.
"I've got to hand it to you, Sakura. You did a very good job."
Sakura blushed but replied, "Thanks. It was easy with your cute laughter reinforcing me to continue further and further." She giggled. "I'm sorry, but you made it so I couldn't help myself."
"That's ok. I'm going to get you back for this one day. You know that right?"
"Pff, I'm not ticklish."
Sasuke stretched out his arms and legs, relaxing them after having them restrained for the past few hours.
"I'm too tired to find out, unfortunately."
Sakura stuck her tongue out at him. "Or maybe you're scared I'm not ticklish." She pondered over her thoughts for a moment. "Or maybe you just like it when I'm the tickler and you're the one getting tickled".
Sasuke's random cough told Sakura she was right on the money.
Sakura suddenly got up and started slowly undressing.
"After all I've put you through today, I think you deserve a treat."
Sasuke looked startled upon hearing this.
"Baby, I just told you I was too tired."
"Pshh". Sakura waved a hand at this, dismissing the thought. "Men are never too tired for this."
Sakura then seductively beckoned to him with one finger and smiled flirtatiously at him.
"Come on over, Sasuke."
Sasuke smiled and did as he was told. It was going to be a good day after all.
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