Something In Common

Story by veilunlifted on SoFurry

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A commission for Anonymous.

A Buneary farmer boy, Rin, has it hard. Orphaned by the war and forced to toil in the fields for a place to sleep.

But his fortune changes when Seiko and Niko, two Vulpix regal girls suddenly descend from the castle upon his farm, and seem to have an agenda of fun in mind.

What kind of fun, Rin will have to find that out as well.

Well, this was a nice wholesome break from the usual naughtiness I produce but that is what I love about writing for this guy.

You know who you are, and thanks again for the impromptu knowledge, I never knew there was a diff between Stock and Stockade!

Happy Ticklish Reading,Veil

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When a general wages war, does he consider the civilians caught in the crossfire of flying bolts and drawn swords? More often than not, the answer is easy to deduce, no.

However, for Rin, the constant fighting that has plagued his homeland since the Emperor's passing had become such a normal occurrence, it was hardly even unnatural, let alone something worthy of his brain's time in thought.

The young brown furred Buneary pokemon hardly had time to consider the wartime efforts of the feudal state if he even wanted to, given his obligations to the village.

To Rin, the war was nothing more than a terrible reminder of how he wound up in his poverty-stricken state as an orphan to warrior parents to begin with, and as such, not a topic he was fond of remembering.

His day to day life was more well spent with the tending of the fields of hay outside the village limits, owned by the strict yet loving farmer couple that took him in, and while the soft comforts of an upper-class bed was not within his grasp, the steadfast Buneary had easy slumbers in a cozy hay-barn that stood near the farmhouse.

The castle that shadowed the village in it's immaculate yet wartorn walls was the home of whatever governing body that had power over the residents that year, sometimes month, or longer.

But it's current ruling class and it's respective rules hardly affected Rin, his main goals through the day were to trot his bare feet through the fields of hay, harvest what he could manage through swings of his scythe, and continue to provide for the kind guardians he lived closely to.

Sometimes, however, regal citizens in their fine, clean clothing would find themselves exploring the village and farmland in some form of warped tourism, or just out of pure curiosity of what the lower class had culturally.

On this exact day, Rin was wiping sweat from his brow, and walking back to his hay barn, when the wooden clacks of sandals could be heard behind him.

"See, I told you he lived there!" One young, girlish voice spoke.

"Wowie, I really thought you were being sarcastic!" The other replied.

Turning around to match the pair's gaze, Rin locked eyes with the sisters that spoke.

To his left, was an orange furred Vulpix girl, about his age maybe a year or two older, and to his right, her sister, silver coated yet nearly identical in size and shape.

"Uh, can I help you two...?" Rin asked, nervously, wanting to keep his respect intact, given the siblings were clearly regals, the orange and silver Vulpixes were clothed in a fiery red robe, and a silvery blue patterned robe respectively.

Those kinds of clothes were basically reserved for the regal, nothing like the tattered rags and pantaloons that Rin stood before them in.

"Maaaaybe." Said the Orange Vulpix with a singsong voice, smiling widely. "Maybe not!"

The Silver Vulpix stood between them, giggling softly. "What my sister means, is that we need a friend that's a little less shining armor and a little more, fun!" She spoke.

Scratching his dirty hair, the Buneary tilted his head and shrugged his shoulders. "How can I...be a friend?"

His nervousness was rising, Rin knew that if he would be disrespectful of these girls, they could very easily tell their friends in high places of his slander, which was often punished by the blade of a samurai placed briskly through the torso, and that was hardly the end the already struggling Buneary wanted to find himself in.

He knew that his best bet was to be respectful, coy, and go along with the mischievous yet excited seeming young pokemon.

The Silver Vulpix spoke softly, yet had just as much a chipper attitude as her sister, as she began to speak.

"Well first, my name is Seiko, and this is my silly sister Niko." She said, motioning to the orange, fiery clad Vulpix.

"It's a pleasure." Rin said, formally bowing.

As he bowed, Rin was unable to not look at their paws, specifically the ornate, wooden carved geta sandals they were clad in, clean, pampered, and hardly tainted by the looks of labor, a stark contrast to his own bare, grimy feet, which were in a field far more than a wash basin.

"Gosh he's so formal it's almost silly!" Niko piped up, smirking at Rin. "You surrrre he's a good idea?"

"Very sure, you ricecake!" Seiko replied, playfully bapping at her sister's chest.

Confused, nervous, and unsure if he should return to work, or simply wait for the silly siblings to finish their bickering, Rin spoke up.

"Uh, Ma'ams, uh, ladies?" He shyly retorted.

"Oh, right." Seiko said, turning her attention to the Buneary. "We uh, well we needed a new friend to show stuff to, cuz we're bored, and all..."

"And we were wondering, if you would want to join us in the castle for a few days, stop working and stuff, see what cool stuff we have!" Niko continued.

Rin was shocked, an actual, genuine offer to see the interior of the castle, by two very much so regal daughters. While he hardly had any good mentalities about the castle, he didn't carry any bad ones either, and the inside of the large fortress was absolutely a beacon of curiosity.

"Uh, I don't know if I fit that bill, girls, I'm just a farmhand orphan..." Rin started.

Seiko looked to her sister with a half hurt, half excited smile.

Well, looks like we have something in common...we're uh...orphans too." Riko revealed. "We just got taken in by the Shogun's armament provider..."

So they weren't fully regal, but similarly orphaned, and taken in by a generous soul, albeit a soul with far more wealth and clout.

"Wow...I didn't know...Let me uh...wash up..." Rin said, slowly and politely turning from the girls and heading into the hay barn.

After a brisk bath, cleaning himself of some of the grime that coated his body, the relatively clean, yet still ragged Buneary followed the two excited Vulpix sisters up the hill for what seemed like hours, the walk much shorter than it seemed, until they arrived at the front gates.

Towering over them was the massive frame of two samurai, standing guard valiantly, yet virtually motionless hardly even giving Rin a second look as the three walked right past them and into the courtyard.

"You're it!" Niko teasingly yelled, as she tapped her sister's shoulder and ran off to the right, into a hallway.

"You little!" Seiko yelped, giving chase. "C'mon Rin, we won't just let her win right?!" She encouraged.

Rin chuckled, the feeling of happiness growing in his heart as he excitedly shrugged and ran after the two down the hallway.

The three played and chased one another through the corridors and passages for a long while, before finally even in youthful spirits, their bodies became tired and the three slowly walked into another room, this one less inviting than the others, and containing various pilfered artifacts and weapons from defeated enemy armies.

"Woah, this stuff seems, dangerous..." Rin said, running his fingers along a stolen halberd's handle.

"Well this thing isn't, it's pretty neat huh?" Seiko could be heard saying.

Turning to face the Vulpix, Rin looked at what she was referring to.

It was a wooden stock, four holes intersected by boards, and even hanging from the sides were authentic metal padlocks.

"What...is that?!" Rin asked curiously.

The two sisters looked at each other and then to Rin with a mischievous grin.

"It's a thing, a thingy thing..." Niko started, Seiko adding. "It's uh, what we wanted to show you most!"

Rin instinctively walked toward the contraption, looking at it with a tilted head, curiosity growing as he asked "So it uh...stops you from moving, but why?"

"Well if you know how it works so well, why don't you get in it huh?" Niko firmly offered, smile growing.

Nervousness replaced curiosity, but Rin knew that denying the two girls could hurt their feelings, and if their feelings got hurt, more than likely, he would as well.

"Heh, fine, but, just don't uh, you know, kill me..." Rin said, slowly walking to the contraption's backboard, and laying down obediently.

"Kill you? Oh my gosh we aren't that mean!" Seiko said, "But we aaareee kinda mean." She teased.

It only took seconds for the girls to firmly secure Rin's hands in each of the two arm-locks, and for his ankles to be bound similarly in the latches of the ankle-locks, his large Buneary feet bare and exposed as they protruded from the restraint.

"W- Wow, okay, uh...this thing really works...heh..." Rin spoke, timidly, looking back and forth to the two sisters who stood mischievously in front of his feet.

"You're a smartie pants huh, gotta teach you a lesson in being so smart!" Niko said, sticking her tongue out, her sister nodding in agreement. "Gotta show him his place!"

Rin whined, trying to struggle against the well cut wood and jingling padlocks, unable to move at all, and watching while Niko reached her hands out to the left foot of the restrained Buneary, her sister quickly joining in, her grin wide while they placed their hands on his plush, recently basin washed feet.

"Ready?" Seiko asked, as if Rin would ever be.

Rin opened his mouth to object, but was only cut out by his own laughter.

"W- wait! What are you doing- a- ahahaha- aAHAHAHAHA!" He cackled.

Niko, using her Vulpix nails, began gently tickling them along the underside of Rin's left foot sending tickling feelings up Rin's leg, her sister joining in identical fashion to his right, their nails grazing and gyrating on his sensitive soles.

"OH GOD AAAHAHAHAH!" Rin laughed harder, writhing and struggling against the restraints, his toes curling and splaying in hysterics.

"Gosh he's so ticklish, look at him laugh!" Seiko teased, her nails trailing to the Buneary's sensitive heel, circling it quickly.

"Watch this!" Niko encouraged her sister, as she placed both hands together and wiggled all her fingers on his right sole.

Rin laughed, his body wriggling left and right while his feet were subjected to the merciless tickling of the Vulpix siblings, his eyes watering as he laughed loudly, the thick stone walls dampening his hysterical laughter to the ears of anyone outside.

"Ooooh, good idea!" said Seiko, mimicking her sister's fingerwork, adding the same tickling intensity to Rin's other exposed, flexing foot.

The mischievous sisters were relentless, tickling him for what was only a few minutes, but felt like hours, the Buneary only being now given a small, breathing break.

"Be right baaaack!" Niko teased, and skipped away, Seiko kneeling down in front of both of Rin's large, wiggling feet and toes.

"Wh- where is s- she going?" Rin asked breathlessly.

"Don't worry about it." Seiko replied, her hands rising up, one to each sole, and beginning a soft, tickling motion to each foot, enough to send Rin back into struggling laughter, but not as relentless as before.

"Found it!" Niko cheerfully announced, returning to her sister's side, in her hands, two leathery sticks.

"Wh- what are those?!" Rin pleaded, heavily breathing.

"Some guys in the other nations use them to ride feral horses! But we have other uses..." Seiko answered, lifting the leathery, prickly end of the stick to Rin's left foot, Niko joining in a natural pattern.

The Buneary didn't even have time to catch his breath before the sisters began jiggling the prickly sticks at the soles of his feet, sending an even more intense, vibrating tickle up his legs.

Writhing, his toes flexing tightly and his previous laughter dwarfed in decibels by his current, Rin was becoming light headed at the pure joyful sensations the Vulpix sisters were pushing him into, his eyes watering and crying as he babbled in hysterics. "AAAHAHHHAHHAHAHHHHH!" He cried out, his toes flicking and thumping in the air, helplessly between the restraints and the unstopping tickling beneath the prickly, brushlike sticks the sisters were tickling his tender feet with.

"Shall we finish his lesson with the...well you know?" Seiko asked, Niko just nodding.

"Pl- Please, n- no more, I can't take any-HAHAHAHAHA!" Rin pleaded, stopped by the finale of tickles.

With one hand, each sister respectively placed their fingers to the poor helpless Buneary boy's soles, vibrating their nails up and down his reddening, tender feet, and in their other, guided the prickly stick, combining their efforts and mixing both means of torturing the boy's foot paws they had.

"AHAAHA, OH MY GOD NO MORE! HAHAHAHAHAHA"! Rin cackled out, fruitlessly as the sticks and fingers trailed along his feet with even more intensity, his eyes closed and he felt his consciousness being clouded by the pure, overjoying tickle.

"Okay, okay, Niko, he has had enough hehehe." Seiko said, dropping her stick, and softly stopping her sister who was reluctant to stop, but joined in ceasing.

Moments later, Rin was catching his breath, his tears stopped, his chest mildly tender from the massive laughter he had endured, as Seiko and Niko finally reached for the padlocks.

"Uh oh, I lost the keys..." Seiko said, Niko piping up. "Oh no me too!"

Rin blinked nervously and looked back and forth between the sisters. "You are joking right?!"

Giggling, they slid their keys into the padlocks and released Rin from the stock, smiling. "Of course we are."

As the three walked out of the treasure room, Rin's abused feet felt sensitive with each step along the cool stone floor, and even more as they arrived on the carpeted sections.

"Thanks for being our little prisoner, Rin, you're a lot of fun!" Seiko chipperly spoke. "Wanna join us for dinner?"

"Yeah, you're our prisoner, so obviously our guest!" Niko added, "Not really a prisoner though, the Shogun says we can't arrest people, only his sammi-hai's can."

"They're Samurai." Seiko corrected, "Whatever." Niko added.

A dinner? In the castle, with regals? It must be over a hundred percent better than the slop or leftover wheat porridge Rin had become used to, and even with the mischievous nature of the two Vulpix girls, they genuinely seemed to enjoy his company, no matter how dampened to their own standing.

"S- Sure, that sounds great...I am pretty hungry, given two pretty girls just made me laugh out all my energy!" Rin piped up, trying to match his newfound regal friend's personalities.

"See, told ya he was going to be fun!" Seiko said, walking through the arch into the dining hall.

Rin spent the last of the night eating a well prepared feast with his friends, and even though they were already discussing what other games they could play and the context of 'games' with these two would no doubt be enduring.

He found himself genuinely excited about what could come next...finally, Rin had good fortune, even if his feet tingled afterwards.