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“I want you to tie me up.”
“Really? You?”
Nina pouted. “Yes. What's wrong with that?”
“It doesn't really fit your vibe,” Subaru snickered. “Your vibe is more like ‘adolescent rebellion’ than ‘kink freak.’”
“Okay, well your ‘vibe’ might be ‘rude bitch.’”
“Uh huh. So you insist on this, then?” Subaru crossed her arms, then sat down. They were in her apartment; Nina had dropped by out of nowhere, without even texting ahead of time. So Subaru ended up on the couch, while Nina still stood up, growing more frustrated with Subaru’s attitude by the moment.
“Yes! You think I’d just turn away because you acted a little rude?”
“You’re right. I should have expected you to be way more stubborn.” Subaru paused for a moment. “Why are you asking me, anyway?”
“Because I expect you’re already into this stuff.”
Subaru frowned. “Well, I am, but I don’t like that it’s obvious.” She leaned forward. “So what, so you think this will make you cool if I tie you up or hurt you a little?”
“I mean, yeah. Rock stars are always wearing bondage gear.”
“You could just do that. You can just wear that stuff. Fashion is fashion.”
Nina pouted once more. “But it wouldn't feel right.”
“I promise that whatever celebrities have inspired you to go down this path also have not done any kink.”
“Well, whatever. I still wanna try it.”
“Sure, whatever. Fine. But please remember that you agreed to this.”
“Of course.”
They agreed to a date, which soon arrived, much like Nina at Subaru’s apartment once more. But where last time she had been bold and boisterous, she was much less her usual attitude the second time. The realization of what she had actually agreed to, along with a little bit of online research, gave her an idea of what she was really in for.
She had been in Subaru’s room plenty of times before, but always in ways which were decidedly more platonic than this. She was familiar enough to take a seat on the bed without needing to be told, but she had to find a place among all the things that Subaru had laid out.
Some of it looked cool, like leather straps or handcuffs, but some looked decidedly scarier, like a gag or what had to be many meters of rope.
Subaru followed after Nina, armed as crossed as her attitude. “Alright, pay attention. There’s rules to this stuff, because if you can’t tell already, you can get hurt here. And, of course, if you don’t want that, you can leave.”
“No, I’m here. Let’s do this.” When she saw Subaru get a little flustered at that, she continued, “Cause like, how bad can this be? You’re going to, what, tie me up a little and pinch me?”
Subaru sighed. “Look, when you get overwhelmed, just tell me and we can stop, okay?”
“What do you mean, when? I’m not some wimp.”
“I mean that this is going to be a more intense experience than you’re prepared for and you’re going to give up before I get bored. That’s literally normal.”
“I’m not normal.”
Subaru snorted a laugh, which made Nina frown. “Yeah, you sure aren’t.” She studied Nina for a moment, then said, “Alright, so do you want to get naked or do you wanna do this wearing clothes? Your choice.”
“Seems like it’d be uncomfortable if I was wearing clothes. Can I just wear my underwear?”
“Yeah, sure, whatever.”
Nina got up and began undressing. As she did, Subaru started preparing her things, such that by the time Nina turned back around, Subaru already had a bit of rope in her hands.
“Alright, sit down.” When Nina sat down on the edge of the bed, like she had been doing before, Subaru snapped, “No, not like that. On the bed.” She reached over and cleared away some of the things on the bed. “Sit there. Seiza-style.”
Nina was a little confused, but she did as Subaru directed. Subaru leaned over and grabbed her, moving her over slightly. Then she sat down on the bed behind her and began tying her up, starting with her arms.
After a couple minutes, Subaru stopped, then leaned over Nina’s shoulders. “Stop moving so much. You’re making it hard.”
Nina craned her neck back. “Hey, it’s hard to keep my arms in this position. Maybe make it easier for me if you want to make it easier for yourself.”
Subaru scowled, but didn’t respond. She got back to it and continued trying to tie the knot she was working with. Eventually, she was able to make it stick, no thanks to Nina.
“Alright, there. How is that feeling? And don’t just say ‘I’m fine.’ or whatever. If you’re feeling numb or anything tell me. I don’t want to ruin TogeToge for like a year just because you didn’t tell me I tied it too tightly.”
Nina moved around a little bit, jostling the ropes as much as she could. Her hands couldn’t escape, and in fact, her arms could barely move. It was a bit uncomfortable, but not overly so, and she knew that if she told Subaru that, she would stop.
Subaru took another length of rope and began to wrap it around Nina’s legs. It took a bit of moving her around. Every time Subaru grabbed Nina’s legs, she blushed a little, but soon enough, her legs were trapped in the seiza-style kneeling that she had been doing before. Calf pressed against thigh, with ropes digging into the flesh more than they did for her arms.
“It’s surprisingly comfortable,” she said, without Subaru prompting her. “I mean, not exactly comfortable. But it doesn’t hurt. I could stay like this.”
“Sure. But you might feel differently when you’ve been like this for a while. But your not going to stay like that for long.” Then she pushed Nina down on her chest. “You can still breathe, right?”
Nina responded with a muffled, “Uh, yeah.”
Subaru grabbed some more rope, a shorter bit this time, and went about tying the knots around Nina’s arms and legs together. It was such that she couldn’t move herself out of a position where her back was straight against her legs and arms.
Once Subaru was done with that, she turned Nina back up. For the first time in many minutes, she rested. She looked down at Nina, who was clearly in a fair bit of pain. “Feeling good? I’m just getting started.”
Nina looked over at Subaru. She did her best to move her limbs a little, but all she succeeded in doing was digging the ropes into her skin some more, which caused her to wince. “Feeling great. Thanks.”
Subaru considered pressing her and encouraging Nina to quit, but she was actually finding that expression of pain rather cute. So she decided to continue as normal. There were still things that she had gotten out and wanted to use. A collar, to start.
“Well, wearing a collar isn’t anything special for you, right? But that’s the point I was making, you know.”
“Whatever.”
It was much more like a human-sized dog collar than anything Nina had worn in her stage outfits. It was less comfortable, too, but she assumed that was the point. The discomfort continued to mount, but she was willing to endure that as long as she could say she survived the experience.
Besides, the pain was fun. Thinking that brought a little blush to her face.
“Please tell me if this is too tight. I really don’t want you passing out on me here.” Even as she said that, Subaru was picking up some leader straps to move onto the next stage.
“It’s fine.” The amount that it hurt wasn’t enough to cause issues for Nina. It especially didn’t make it any harder to breathe, which she assumed would be the real issue.
Leather straps were next. Subaru pulled apart Nina’s calves and thighs as much as possible to wrap the straps around, then pulled them tight enough that they pressed into Nina’s skin. She began to hear small groans of pain from the other girl, and smiled at that, but continued.
As she did, she asked, “So do you want me to stop yet?” Subaru hadn’t expected this to go on very long, but she was already close to a half hour in. Tying ropes and fastening straps took time. Without waiting for an answer, she started drawing straps around Nina’s arms.
She reached over and grabbed some more rope, prepared to start linking the straps into a pattern, when she heard an eek from Nina. She looked over to see the other girl’s face covered in a crimson blush.
She snickered a little, then asked, “Giving up yet?”
She expected Nina to say no. Yet, Nina did slowly nod, and eventually said, “...Yeah. I’m done.”
Untying her was a lot faster than tying her had been. Soon enough, Nina was sitting upright once more, limbs completely free. She rubbs her wrists, covered in red marks, like everywhere else on her body. Nothing would leave a scare, but she did feel self-consious about going outside until those marks were gone. That meant she would have to linger around Subaru’s apartment for a while more. Maybe even stick around until morning, if she was out late enough for trains to stop.
“So, had enough? Think you can wear those clothes you want to wear now?”
Nina gave her a small nod, still blushing too much to really talk. But when she did finally eke out words, that only made her blush worse.
“I did… I did like it. I wouldn’t mind doing this again…”
It was Subaru’s turn to blush.