Mei and Gabu were once again meeting with each other on the Sawasawa Mountains, where they had regularly met over the past few weeks. Taking part in the usual picnic, the pair had grown very attached to each other recently, their relationship progressing very well since the first fateful meeting. Both of them felt very comfortable and calm in each others presence, and since Gabu had begun to manage his urge for a bite of goat meat, they now had full trust in each other, with Gabu in particular becoming emotionally dependent on Mei.
“This sure is a good day for it!” Gabu said, happily watching Mei eat a selection of clovers.
“Yeah!”, Mei replied, “The sun is brighter than ever! It's really relaxing to come up here on a nice day like this...”
Gabu was content simply watching the tubby goat eat his meal. He couldn't resist Mei's cuteness at the best of times, and he was always in a good mood just by being around him. However, he was always anxiously waiting for Mei to instigate something a little...closer. They had shown affection to each other before, but Gabu really wanted to give the cute goat the nuzzles and cuddles he thought he deserved, yet was too nervous to actually ask Mei himself for it.
There was also something else on his mind that just kept adding to Mei's adorable factor. On their first picnic together, back when he was still struggling to resist his carnivore instincts, he had ended up inadvertently tickling Mei by simply breathing on his ear. Even though it only resulted in a brief few seconds of giggling and a cute smile...it was by far the cutest thing Gabu had ever seen. And he wanted to see it again.
Mei seemed to be the more outgoing of the two, but Gabu was pondering about whether he would actually offer physical fun like that himself – or whether he would even be okay with the suggestion. He really wanted to tickle the adorable goat, but was very nervous about asking. They had just happened to be seated next to a pile of feathers today too, which did not help. He picked one of them up and twirled one around his paw fingers, as he decided to finally just come out and ask...
“Umm...Mei?”
“Yes, Gabu? What is it?”
“Uhh...remember back when we first had a picnic, and I ended up breathing on your ear and tickling you?”
“Oh yeah. Well, I did say my ears were rather ticklish! Why?...What are you thinking about?”
Gabu knew he shouldn’t have mentioned it. He forgot that the cute moment he was describing was essentially him being a few seconds away from murdering the poor goat. “Oh, I wasn’t thinking about eating again, honest!! I was just...thinking about how cute you were....”
Mei soon smiled widely. “Hehe, you thought I was cute being ticklish?”
“Well..y-yeah, of course! And I...er...I was wondering...” Gabu stuttered awkwardly.
“Wondering what?” Mei still smiled, as if trying to reassure the wolf.
“I was wondering if I could tickle you some more!” Gabu shouted out quickly, forcing it out of his mouth before he could wimp out.
“Tickle me? You mean, actually try and tickle me hard to make me laugh?” Mei replied, staring at the long feather that Gabu was playing around with.
“Not hard...I'll stop as soon as you want me to... I just really wanna see you laugh like that again!” Gabu blushed slightly beneath his fur.
“Hehe, that sounds great!” Mei replied.
“Aww, alright, I won't....wait...you mean...you want me to!?” Gabu couldn’t quite believe that Mei was so enthusiastic.
“Well, yeah! If it'll make you happy then sure! And I bet I am really cute when tickled!”
“Ah, that's great!!! I won't go too hard, I promise!”
Mei laid himself on his back, revealing his soft, pudgy belly outward and spreading his hooves out. He smiled and blushed at Gabu, feeling a little nervous but very excited too. “Go as hard as you want, I'll tell you if its too much! Let's see if you can make me laugh!” Mei teased, smirking and tensing his abdomen up, ready to try his best to hold in his reactions to the tickling.
Gabu smirks back at him as he slowly lowers the feather down to his partner's fluffy belly and gently strokes it down. He gives very gentle and slow teasing strokes across the goat with the soft feather, watching carefully for reactions. Almost immediately upon feeling the gentle touch of the feather, Mei's smirk widens and his cheeks blush a little deeper, as he already struggles to hold in a light giggle. He was aware of his ticklishness, but being tickled by Gabu made him feel a lot more tingly than usual.
His wider smirk did not go unnoticed by the wolf, who sped up slightly and stroked the feather faster along the goat's tummy. He even giggled and blushed a little himself, getting bashful at the sight of Mei's absolutely adorable reactions. When Mei began to let out very quiet, soft giggles a minute later, the pair of them were blushing as red as a tomato.
“Looks like it didn’t take me long to get a giggle out of you!” Gabu taunted as he teased Mei a little more with the feather, stroking more around his sides along with his tummy.
“Hehe that feather-hehehe-tickles a-hehe-lot!!” Mei's giggling grew slowly each minute, moving from the soft chuckles to much higher-pitched laughing, sounding like they were close to becoming bleats. The adorable sight was already enough to make Gabu want to squee in delight, but he wanted to see if it could get any cuter.
“You look so cute! D'ya think you could laugh any louder?”
“Mahahahaybe!! Hehe-why don't you-haha-try your best!” Mei challenged, attempting to make a devious smirk towards the wolf which ended up being impossible through his constant involuntary smile. Gabu's eyes automatically lit up.
“Don't mind if I do!” He said, dropping the feather next to Mei's hoof and teasingly wiggling his fingers at the sensitive goat, showing off his stubby, pointy dark claws. Before he could even react, Mei soon felt his partner's claws on his tubby tummy, almost immediately sending him into loud squeaky laughter. Gabu was extremely careful with his claws, only stroking them very slowly and gently across the top of Mei's soft tummy to avoid even the slightest chance of causing him accidental pain – but to the ultra-ticklish goat, the gentle teasing touch was even more torturous. While the feather only sent some light tingling surging through his tummy, the pointy wolf claws were making him forcefully curl up and hold his hooves inward as a defence mechanism against the strong tickles. Although he couldn’t help but try and squirm away, he was absolutely loving the feeling. Even when playfully tickled by his fellow goats over the years he would turn into a blushing wreck, but having Gabu tickle him was something very special. Not only the exciting thrill of having a wolf torment him, but the trust and love he felt for said wolf was contributing heavily to his blushful appearance. Having his soft pudgy tummy stimulated by someone he really loved – it was even more exciting than he had expected it to be.
Gabu on the other hand was possibly even happier. Although he had thought of Mei as adorable within seconds of seeing him for the first time, and he obviously expected him to be a very cute ticklee, but he was nearly melting from the sheer delight of seeing him laugh and squirm. Whilst he always kept the worry of going too far in the back of his mind, so that he wouldn’t hurt or overwork him, he was completely immersed in tickling that big goat tummy. He even began to verbally taunt every now and again, adding in a “Tickle tickle Mei!” every minute or so which always resulted in even more squirming and blushing from the goat.
The pair ended up having their ticklish fun for almost 15 minutes, until Gabu began to notice Mei occasionally gasping for breath. As soon as he saw that he stopped and gently rubbed his tummy, checking to see he hadn't tickled too much.
“Are you alright, Mei? Did I do it for too long?” He said, still smiling but with genuine worry in his voice. Mei did take a few seconds to catch his breath, but after he had done so, it was clear that Gabu had made him very happy indeed.
“No...no way! That was so much fun!” He replied, “I never knew I was THAT ticklish!”
“And I never knew you could be that cute!” Gabu replied, before blushing even heavier, “Y-you know, n-not that I ever thought you weren't...”
Mei got back on his hooves and nuzzled the wolf's blushing cheeks with his own. “Oh, Gabu...im glad you think im cute, but I'm pretty sure you are even cuter!” That compliment certainly didn’t help Gabu's blushing reduce.
“Oh, n-no, I dont think I can giggle as cutely as that!”
“Well, seeing as you got your 15 minutes of fun in, it's only fair that I get a go too, hmm?” Mei replied, looking very excited. It took Gabu a while to realise what he meant, but when he did he became very visibly flustered, most noticeably placing one footpaw on top of the other and clenching his toes tightly.
“Uh...well..hehe..I mean, yeah, I guess, but im p-pretty sure you'll realise im not cute in no time!...I have a terrible giggle, really! You probably don't even wanna hear it!” Seeing him so blatantly flustered indicated to Mei that Gabu was attempting to get out of a good tickling.
“We'll see about that, I'm sure! Remember you can shout out at any time and I'll stop, even if it's only after a few seconds! I don't wanna make you uncomfortable...”
The reassurance and trust he felt for Mei made Gabu relent and accept, although he briefly became slightly more confident “O...OK, Mei! Sure! Tickle me! But you will have to try really hard, because the fur on my stomach is really thick!”
“That's no problem, it's not your stomach I want to try out!”
“I-It's not...Oh...” Gabu realised his tummy fluff would not help him out – and there wasn't enough fur on his paws to stop them from being incredibly sensitive.
Mei giggled and grinned, “Hehe, go on Gabu, show me the soles of your feet!”
Gabu did so slowly, keeping his toes clenched a little as he positioned himself so his legs were straight out in front of him, his big footpaws pointing up into the air. His flustering continued, as the sight of Mei's grinning and the feeling of the breeze on his soon-to-be-tickled foot soles were already making his body tingle. Mei picked up the feather from before, gripping it with his hoof-fingers and moving it towards the timid wolf. Starting out, he touched the tip of the feather to his left heel and quickly swiped it upwards, and within a second he knew he had made the right choice by going for his paws. His foot visibly flinched as soon as a single fibre made contact with it, and as it stroked along his large, soft pad, his toes splayed out wide and he used his handpaws to cover his mouth, struggling heavily to not laugh straight away. The feather then travelled along his toes, making them curl back up. Mei couldn't even decide what was cuter – Gabu's vain attempt to hold in laughter or his plump, padded toes wiggling and curling at the slightest stroke of the feather.
“Try not to hold your mouth next time, Gabu, I wont hear your giggling otherwise!” Mei said, before swiping across the other furry sole.
Gabu's reflexes made him hold his muzzle, but deep down he wanted to do as Mei asked. He wanted to make the cute goat happy with his reactions – and even deeper down, he was sort of excited by how the feather felt on his feet. After Mei made a few more tickly swipes, Gabu managed to hold his hands down to the ground and it only took a matter of seconds for soft, low-pitched giggles to escape his muzzle, which spurred the goat on to begin consistently stroking the feather up and down both of his soles.
Over the next minute, Gabu's rough giggling turned into full laughter, and the cuteness was growing at a rapid rate. He had to give some props to his thick fur, it was at least helping to hide the fact that he was blushing the brightest possible shade of red. His cheeks poofed up before his mouth opened wide to let out very loud, adorable laughter. All the while, his fluffy toes kept up a consistent hypnotic wiggle, becoming faster whenever Mei used the feather on them directly rather than the soles.
“What were you saying about not having a cute laugh again?” Mei teased.
“Hahahahaha-OK Ihihihihihihi- was lyihihihihihing!!!” Gabu struggled to reply through his still-growing laughter.
Mei tutted patronisingly, “Just for that, I'll have to make it even louder!” Dropping the feather, which lead immediately to Gabu rubbing his footpaws together firmly in an attempt to soothe the tickling sensation, Mei picked up a pointy stick from nearby ground and surveyed the tip of it. “It's a shame I don't have any claws to use on you, but I think this looks just as tickly!”
Gabu squirmed at the sight of the stick, but he was no longer able to deny, he loved what was happening to him. He thought tickling Mei was the most fun he'd had in a long time, but being tickled by him was something else. He had gone from being nervous and apprehensive about his ticklish paws to now actively teasing Mei by wiggling his toes around.
“Oh my, that looks like it's gonna tickle a lot! I hope you dont use it on my toes!” Gabu said, before the pair of them shared a knowing wink, both now aware of how much the other was enjoying themselves.
“Hmm, but your toes look so cute and fluffy!” Mei said, before gently poking across each of them with the edge of the stick.
“SQUEE!” The noise that emerged from Gabu's muzzle was one that he was not even aware he was able to make. It was as if the poke to his toes surged through his body until it emerged through his mouth in the form of an unbelievably adorable squealing giggle. It was so adorable that Mei must have prodded each of the cute canine's toes at least 5 times each just to hear it over and over again. Sometimes it made Gabu curl his entire body up in reflex, but he always placed his feet back into position a few seconds later. After a certain point, the stick was used to gently stroke all over his soles and toes, much in the same way the claws had explored Mei's tummy beforehand.
That really turned Gabu into a giggling wreck, losing all semblance of strength he had maintained throughout the poking and reducing him to constant laughter, his ticklish feet-paws and toes squirming around so much that Mei had to be extra careful with the stick in case Gabu ended up hurting himself by forcing his sole against the point of it. The wolf wasn’t the only one laughing though – the sheer cuteness of Gabu's ticklish agony was making Mei blush, squirm and giggle himself, having more fun than he had ever done before. He carried on for only 12 minutes – as his ticklish companion ran out of breath a lot quicker than he had done – before stopping and dropping the stick. He attempted to nuzzle the soles of Gabu's paws to nicely soothe them, however that made the giggling continue, so he decided it would be best to avoid doing it any further. He switched to nuzzling their cheeks together just as they had done before.
“Oh, wow, Gabu! You are so ticklish and cute I could melt!” Mei said, smiling widely as he waited for Gabu to catch his breath.
“Do you...do you think I was cuter than you?” Gabu smirked at him.
“Hmm, I dont think we should compete anymore...what is important is that we had so much fun!” Mei shouted back excitedly and curled up against the wolf, continuing to nuzzle him. Gabu responded by also curling up, and cradling his paws around Mei until they formed a big cuddly ball of fur on the ground. Mei's ticklish ears were gently fondled in Gabu's hands, but only lightly enough for the goat to emit a relaxed, comfortable moan.
“We should do this a lot more often, Mei...maybe we could build an endurance and tickle each other for hours!” Gabu replied, overwhelmed with the physical affection and love they were sharing.
“Mmm, yeah, that would be amazing!” Mei replied, before they both relaxed and closed their eyes as they enjoyed the warmth of their cuddle. “...I love you, my big ticklish wolf...”
Gabu had thought he had just gotten rid of his blush when it immediately returned. “I..I love you too...my cute little ticklish goat...”
