A Day With Tsunade Ch. 4

                                               Chapter 4: The Final Exam

Tsunade gave Sakura a little while to rest after the whole ordeal. She could tell that she was exhausted. After a good half hour of napping and drinking plenty of water, Sakura was completely refreshed and back on her feet. “So Tsunade,” Sakura began curiously as they strolled back into the barn, preparing for the last test. “What exactly do you have in mind for me? You know for this last one?” She asked as she sat down on a fresh bale of hay in her now dried out underwear. It was kind of funny to her, it felt perfectly natural now. She wasn’t embarrassed at all! Perhaps that was Tsunade’s plan as well, so that the people could not humiliate her into submission.

“Sakura, I’m afraid that’s a secret I can’t yet reveal. If I give you any sort of hint for what’s in store, then that will allow you to plan ahead. If you really were captured by the enemy, you would have very little time to escape in, and no time for planning. You have to get the job done fast and get out.” Sakura took note of this. She continued to look around the room curiously as she waited for Tsunade to begin the lesson. Out of the corner of her eye she noticed Tsunade studying a torn piece of paper. Sakura figured that she was probably reviewing the next tie to make it as difficult as possible. After what seemed like hours, Tsunade finally approached her again. “So are you ready to start the last one, Sakura?” She asked as she stuffed the paper back into her pocket, although it was obvious that Sakura didn’t actually have a say in the matter.

Sakura stood up and stretched as much as she could. She had a feeling that whatever was planned for her was going to be painful. After bending and touching her toes a few times, Sakura went nodded her head towards Tsunade with a confident smile. The teacher approached with a new coil of rope in hand. “Okay now, Sakura.” She reviewed, “This is your final exam. Remember what’s on the line here! It’s your freedom versus mine! You’re facing a master here.”

“Oh, please!” Sakura burst out, “Get it started already so I can show you how it’s done!” Sakura challenged her. Tsunade obliged.

This time, Tsunade had Sakura place her hands behind her back, in a crossed position instead of palm to palm. Tsunade, tightly wrapped the coil around her two crossing wrists, and after about five turns around, wrapped it through the center to keep the other ropes good and tight as she knotted it extra tightly. The ropes weren’t like before, the last ones were tight, these dug into her skin! Sakura was just lucky that Tsunade preferred soft rope over the wiry kind. Sakura sighed in relief when she did not feel Tsunade reaching for her elbows this time. She had been stuck like that for a little too long that day to go through another elbow touching session. Instead of tying them together, Tsunade now tied them so that they were pressed against her back. She carefully tied a length of rope around one of Sakura’s elbows, looping it around several times. Once she had a firm base four winds of rope, she knotted it off, leaving a long tail of rope sticking out from it. Tsunade then slid the rope underneath Sakura’s torso and beneath her breasts. After several wraps around her stomach back to her elbows, Tsunade tied a tight knot; wrapping around Sakura’s other elbow. This made sure that Sakura’s arms staid tightly against her back. Tsunade then repeated the process on Sakura’s upper arms just beneath her shoulders, wrapping it around her arms and above her breasts. The result left Sakura in an absurdly tight harness that almost made it difficult to breathe.

“Ouch!” Sakura screamed as Tsunade yanked at a few knots somewhere behind her back, constricting the ropes binding around her chest area. She let out a loud gasp as a bundle of knots were suddenly pulled to full tightness around her breasts. “Tsunade, I know that you’re trying to give me good training, but is it really necessary for it to hurt like this?” Her comment was met by a glare from Tsunade. “Sakura, you need to understand that I can’t pull any punches here. This is what the enemy will do to you if they capture you. If I don’t show you what to do here and now, and with the real deal, then I might as well not train you at all!” There was a long pause between the two. “I will feel inadequate as a teacher if I hold back on you. Do you understand?” Tsunade asked, shaking Sakura a bit whilst saying it. Sakura took a moment, but then nodded her head, signifying that she understood. “Perfect.” In her thoughts, Tsunade knew that she really did want Sakura to have good training, but right now, even more than that; Tsunade had to win this wager.

Tsunade continued tying Sakura, now moving on towards her leg region. “Yes, this tie may seem pretty plain so far, but don’t worry. I have something very special planned for this.”  She said as she began Sakura’s tie. She did indeed do something different this time. Sakura was waiting to receive her bindings, but they didn’t come yet. Instead, she received a hard and unexpected leg sweep to her shins, making her fall and land painfully on her chest area and face. Tsunade was definitely doing something a little different now!

Instead of simply tying rope around her legs like before, Tsunade took advantage of Sakura’s stomach-laying position. She started by folding Sakura’s legs into a closed position, bending them till her ankles came just beneath her panties. Then, taking a good amount of rope, Tsunade looped several times around just one of Sakura’s legs, starting at her ankle and also wrapping around her thighs located directly beneath them. She knotted it off after about five times around, ensuring that Sakura’s legs were forced to a tightly folded position. Tsunade also encircled another winding of rope around Sakura’s shins and upper legs, located just beneath her knees, to ensure that everything stayed folded up nice and tidy.

Tsunade repeated the process on Sakura’s other leg, putting her in a tight frogtie. Tsunade, however, was not satisfied with this. She flipped Sakura over, forcing her to lie on her back with her two bound legs sitting beside her. With a mercilessly firm grip, Tsunade grabbed Sakura’s two legs and pulled them together in a straight line. Then, grabbing up another strand of rope, Tsunade added a second layer of rope over the first, binding Sakura’s legs together at the thighs, as well as at the ankles and shins, forcing her once separated legs to now press together tightly. In this position, Sakura’s leg movement was restricted to practically zero! Tsunade complemented the merciless legtie with a tight delicate toetie, linking Sakura’s big toes together just like the rest of her legs.

Sakura, thinking that her tie was nearly done, began to struggle and pull at her bonds, but could not loosen a single knot. In fact, the whole harness seemed to contract even more tightly around her the more she struggled! After a minute or so of squirming and writhing, Sakura stopped to take a breather. Tsunade had tied her differently than before. Although it was even more secure now, so much that the ropes would probably need to be cut from her body when they were through, however, the tie itself was less restrictive. Although Sakura still could not escape and found the tying even more efficient, she found herself still more able to move than in her last ties. This was not Tsunade’s style at all…

“What? You think we’re done here, Sakura?” Tsunade spoke up, dusting off her hands. “Well, don’t go getting your hopes up that this is all that you’ll be put through for your final test. I’m just taking a quick break.” Sakura now was not sure whether to be excited, or frightened. Perhaps Tsunade was not taking a break for resting purposes. Maybe it was purely for a psychological effect. Maybe she was trying to get her to panic or confuse her? Or maybe she was trying to get her franticly worried about why she was stopping! Sakura was indeed both baffled and worried, but she knew one thing for sure: Tsunade would finish the tie soon, and that’s all that matters.

Sure enough, after a few minutes, Tsunade stood up once more and resumed. “Now,” She said, twirling a long piece of rope in her hands and pacing in circles around the bound Sakura, “I’ll bet you’re pretty curious about what I’m going to do to you, huh?” Sakura nodded her head viciously, already giving a few half-hearted struggles against the ropes as she rolled over on her side to see her teacher talking. “Well then, I guess it won’t do any harm if I go ahead and tell you what it is. It’s called a ball-tie, and it’s probably one of my favorite ties of them all.” She said, stopping her pacing around Sakura.

“A ball-tie, eh?” Sakura said carefully, “I’ll have to remember that.” Tsunade once again approached her to finish off the ball-tie. “Do your worst, Tsunade.” Sakura challenged her teacher as she knelt down towards her, bearing more rope.

“Don’t worry Sakura, I’ll make this quick, but I doubt that you’ll get out no matter how easy I go.” Tsunade began by pulling Sakura’s legs back up to a folded position and tethered a rope from her tightly bound ankles to her thighs, forcing her legs to stay closed like that. Then, Tsunade placed the palm of her hand against Sakura’s back and pushed. She shoved Sakura’s torso forward towards the top of Sakura’s legs, pushing her until her knees were tucked tightly between her breasts. Then, Tsunade took a long rope and tied a large loop at its top. Sliding the loop firmly, but not tightly, over Sakura’s head and around her neck, Tsunade pressed Sakura’s chin down until it made contact with her knees. Taking the tail of her neck rope, Tsunade wrapped around Sakura’s knees and back around her head several times, keeping her upper body coiled in a tight ball. Tsunade did a similar thing to Sakura’s legs. Tsunade gave Sakura a firm nudge and pushed her over onto her side. She took a long rope and wrapped it around from where Sakura’s knees were coiled, around her back and back again. She did the same thing around Sakura’s ankles. Tsunade finished it with somewhat of a hogtie by attaching a small rope from Sakura’s bound ankles up to where her arms were tied.

All of these bindings put together pulled Sakura into a relentlessly tight ball, restricting any and all movements Sakura could possibly make! This was definitely more Tsunade’s style. “And,” Tsunade said smiling as she rummaged through her bag, “Since you’re having several a new experiences being introduced to all these ball related things today, I suppose I should introduce you to one more.” She said withdrawing a shiny red ball connected to two leather straps from the bag. “This is a ball-gag, to go in association with your ball-tie!”

Sakura was already familiar with those, ever since she saw Naruto use one on Hinata whilst they were playing that ridiculous game that Kakashi thought of! She already knew exactly what Tsunade was going to do. And she was well aware that it was not going to be comfortable!

Tsunade approached her, somewhat surprised to find Sakura’s mouth already wide open awaiting her gag. With an unnecessary amount of force, Tsunade yanked the ball gag between Sakura’s teeth and pulled the straps as tight as they would go. This opened Sakura’s jaw to an extremely uncomfortable length. The rubber ball Tsunade was using had to be one of the biggest in her collection! It was even bigger than the one that she saw gagging Hinata!

“HMMM! MMM! MMMMHHM!” Sakura grumbled as Tsunade tightened the belts behind her head, shoving the rubber ball deeper into her mouth. “Hmmm!” Sakura whined at the discomfort that this brought her widespread jaws. Tsunade circled around Sakura, whose eyes followed her curiously. With Sakura in her helpless balled up sitting position, Tsunade lifted the sole of her foot and placed against the back of Sakura’s head. With a hard shove, Tsunade tipped Sakura over face-first onto the ground, still bound in a perfect ball shape.

“Well, have fun, Sakura!” Tsunade said with a smile after making sure that every knot was pulled to a near painful tightness. “As usual, you have one hour to free yourself! Although, I must warn you. This time, I have taken one extra step to make sure that you don’t escape.” There was a silence in the room for a dozen or so seconds. “Start now!” Tsunade declared as a grin spread across her face. She giggled something to herself as she once again walked out of the room, her voice fading from Sakura’s ears as she shut the large barn doors behind her, leaving Sakura in the semi-darkness to struggle.

Sakura had never been in a ball-tie before, or had a ball gag for that matter, but she had a growing feeling that this was going to be quite difficult. She decided to try some simple struggling to begin, to test if Tsunade had made any mistakes, which she already knew was completely impossible. She tugged her arms a bit, making muffled grunts behind the rubber ball wedged in her mouth. Her struggles were futile. Her elbows, arms, and wrists had all been flawlessly tied with massive amounts of rope, and they were all wrapped around her upper torso as well. Whenever Sakura would tug at her arm bindings, her arms would not budge out of the ropes. Instead, her torso and shoulders would wiggled around as she twisted and turned in her position.

Her legs would not come out from beneath her no matter how hard she pulled. Tsunade had tied Sakura’s legs together in every area imaginable, and then tucked and tied her up into a tight ball from there. It was amazing how good of a job she had done! Every single knot was tied to at least one other knot. Normally Sakura would exploit the weak point. In this case, there was no weak point to exploit. All Sakura could do was wiggle and squirm in her tight ropes, mmphing and mumbling into her ball-gag.

‘Well’ Sakura thought to herself, ‘It’s obvious that Tsunade has done a flawless job in tying me, but I haven’t tried using my chakra yet!’ Sakura let out a few moans into her gag as she released some chakra towards the link of rope tying her ankles to her arms. If she could eliminate that and the bindings around both her legs and torso, she could get out of her helpless ball position nice and quick. From there, the rest should be pretty straightforward.

Sakura felt the chakra slowly crawl through the link rope as the energy was slowly soaked in from her body. But something felt different this time! The ropes didn’t give off the cool smooth feeling that they did before! They felt more and more rigid as more chakra was drawn from her. After a few moments the ropes began to tingle strangely. “HHMMM?!” Sakura garbled through her tight gag. ‘What did she do to these?’ She thought in almost a panic as she pulled against the tingling knots even harder. Slowly, what Sakura was afraid would happen, happened. The ropes slowly contracted, growing smaller and tighter with every passing second. The tight bindings now became a painful cage, pressing tightly into her skin and forcing her into a tighter ball.

“HMMMMPH!” Sakura groaned in annoyance and pain as the ropes finally stopped, leaving her in a tight helpless position, the ropes already leaving aching red lines in her arms, stomach, and legs. This was definitely what Tsunade had planned the whole time for her final exam. She had done something to these ropes to make them reject her chakra. For the moment, Sakura was not willing to release any more chakra before she found out what exactly was going on.

‘Well, there are only two things that make sense’ She thought to herself, ignoring her aching wrists. ‘Either, Tsunade is giving me something that she knows I can’t get out of for the sake of the test, or…She’s purposely used some kind of strange rope on me so that I would undoubtedly lose the bet!’ Sakura pondered the two concepts for several minutes, trying to think of any motivation Tsunade would have to try this. She thought about it for nearly ten minutes, but realizing that time was of the essence she quickly went back to work.

‘What on earth could Tsunade have done to the bindings to make them respond to my chakra? Perhaps they were some kind of ropes that were woven with fibers that respond different ways to chakra? After all, several chemicals respond to chakra as well, such as exploding tags.’ She thought about the theory a bit longer. ‘Can’t be,’ Sakura reasoned, ‘She tied me with the exact same rope that she used the other three times.’ She was making good progress again! ‘That means that whatever she did to these ropes this time, she did it with something that was on hand!’ Sakura looked around the room. She saw no empty chemical bottles or powder residue. That obviously meant that Tsunade altered the ropes with the one thing she had constant and unlimited access to: her chakra!

‘Oh yeah, Sakura! You’re really rolling now!’ She thought to herself. ‘Once you figure this out, you’ll be home free! But, now I have to figure out what she did to it!’ Sakura once again began to feel rage and panic building up inside of her! ‘There’s literally an infinite number of things that she could have done!’ She thought furiously as she once again began to rely on physical force, thrashing and rolling in her ball-tie. ‘I’ll never figure that out!’ Then, completely by accident, Sakura made another mistake. Completely by habit from physically demanding situations, her body let off a small burst of chakra. “MMPH! HMMMM!” She screamed through her now achingly sore jaw. She knew what was going to happen next! The tingling in the ropes slowly returned as Sakura resumed panicking.  Sakura began to squeal as the ropes slowly began to coil around her, now becoming unbearably tight! Her knees were pushed painfully up against her breasts and her head was forced facedown as close to her knees as possible. The rope connecting her ankles and wrists grew smaller and tighter, bending her backwards into an even more compact ball as all the other ropes grew painfully tight.

“HMMMMM!” Sakura screamed as the ropes wringed tighter around her arms, now beginning to leave nasty red burn marks from where they pulled over her skin. By now, Sakura could almost no longer move. Her body was in too much pain, and the ropes were just holding her too inhumanly tightly. Her arms, legs, and torso were almost burning from the tension and tightness from the ropes, and her jaws were beginning to cramp, now wracked with pain from being forced to a full extension.

Sakura laid there silently, having completely lost any will to fight on. ‘This isn’t good at all.’ She thought to herself desperately. ‘The ropes were never intended to get this tight. They’re beginning to cut off my circulation! If they stay like this too long, I’ll pass out, and then I’ll fail for sure!’ Sakura tried to squirm a little bit to make herself more comfortable, but she was held so tightly she had almost no movement over any part of her body. ‘Aw, what’s the point?! I’m giving up! I can’t move, it’s at least a hundred degrees in here, my jaws are in so much pain I’m not gonna be able to eat for a week, and my arms are getting burnt from the rope wringing and twisting so tightly! I can’t take it!’ Sakura let out a miserable sigh and placed her head down in resignation.

A moment later, her head shot back up. ‘Wait just a second! That just might be the answer!’







‘After she tied me, she put a large amount of her own chakra into the rope. So much that it managed to form a current flowing through the rope itself. The rope’s current is so overwhelming that, when my chakra tries to break the current’s flow, it fights back! It increases in speed and power and breaks straight through my chakra!’ It was all just simple physics! Things she learned practically in elementary school!

Sakura continued on her analysis, her confidence growing as she quickly figured out Tsunade’s trick. ‘The sudden increase of the current’s speed then causes the ropes to slide along with it, making them smaller and tighter in the process!’ It was brilliant! Sakura already knew what she had to do. She would reverse the direction of her chakra flow, then she should be able to insert her own chakra into the current. Once her chakra and the rope’s had merged together, she would be able to slowly pull the current back in the opposite direction. If everything goes according to plan, the ropes should loosen to their original tightness, which honestly was less than comfortable, but it was heaven compared to her current situation.

Sakura began her escape, with only twenty minutes left on her timer. She would have to work quickly! Following her plans exactly, although the pain of her situation did make things slightly difficult to focus, Sakura slowed down her internal chakra flow. After a few moments of deep concentration, she could feel it flowing in reverse. ‘Alright, now that my current is flowing in the same direction as my bindings, I should be able to insert it without disrupting the flow.’ She thought to herself as she allowed her chakra rotation to return to full speed.

Doing exactly what she planned out, she released her chakra through a focal point in her body, merging chakras with the bindings. Feeling no repercussions yet, Sakura continued. She now began reversing the chakra rotation of her ties in hopes that they would loosen. ‘Alright, now if basic laws of physics apply here, I’m undoing what I did before. If that’s true, then my bonds should begin to-‘ Sakura stopped there, frozen in dread.
The tingling was back.

‘This can’t be!’ Sakura thought in horror. ‘I thought it out complet-“HMMMM!!” She screamed into the red rubber ball as the ropes once again began to tighten. She felt the ropes going around her bust shrink, sinking into her skin as her arms and legs were clamped even closer together, now immovable. ‘What happened?!’ She panicked as the ropes were getting unbearably tight. Her vision was beginning to get blurry. ‘Oh no! The ropes are..cutting…off…my circulation as I feared!’ The edges of her vision were being overtaken by darkness, crawling over her eyes. ‘I was so….close…’ She cried as her eyesight grew dim with splotches of bright colors flashing all over the room. Sakura’s body went as limp as the ropes would allow, as she blacked out, letting unconsciousness overtake her.




Sakura was somewhat awakened by the sound of a creaking door. She was still far from conscious, however. “Heh, didn’t even start to get out of her binds. I guess I went too hard on the poor thing.” Sakura heard a familiar voice from the depths of her sleep. “She definitely had the right idea, though.” She heard the voice continue, feeling a hand touch her thigh, analyzing the ropes. “The chakra that I’d put into the ropes has been reversed! She was actually really close; she just made a slight miscalculation!” Tsunade said with astonishment. “She actually might have gotten out if she’d just he…..” Blackness again.


Sakura awoke with a start, her eyes snapping wide open. She took a look around the room, adrenaline beginning to pump through her. Something felt….different. ‘Ow…what’s going on?’ She thought to herself as her eyes flashed with brightness. Looking through the hole in the roof she could barely see the sun anymore. It had been at least three hours since she fainted. ‘Wait! That means that-!’ “Yes, I’m sorry, Sakura.” Came Tsunade’s voice from in front of her. “You’ve lost our little wager, and you know what that means!”

Oh yes, Sakura knew. In one way, she was actually looking forward to the experience of an all-day session. She had actually enjoyed herself more today than almost any other day she could think of. On the other hand, she failed the test that was given to her. Sakura tried to dismiss the thought of failure from her mind.

She looked around the room again, her vision almost clear, she was slowly coming awake. She was no longer in her ball-tie, she could feel, although she could tell simply by the aching pain in her jaw that Tsunade had neglected to remove the giant ball-gag. She was now splayed out between two poles, tied spreadeagle. Her wrists and ankles were pulled to four opposite corners of the poles and tied there tightly with almost no rope between her ankles and the poles, leaving her unable to move at all. There were also ropes wrapping around her torso like a belt just above her bellybutton, only they were linking to the two poles as well. Sakura could only assume that Tsunade had tied her in that position using the same chakra-injected ropes as before, so she did not dare try to escape via chakra. Not until she knew the trick.

“You were quite close to escaping, Sakura.” Tsunade seemed to congratulate her. “You almost figured out my trick. Almost.” Tsunade now circled around the spreadeagled Sakura as the tied girl’s head turned to follow her. “Just for the record, even I would have had trouble escaping within the time I allotted you, although I know I would be able to. You were a beginner at this, and it’s remarkable that you did as well as you did.” Tsunade stopped and stood in front of Sakura. “But, a wager’s a wager. Remember what we agreed on?” She said bringing a small watch out from her pocket. “It is exactly four-o-clock. You are now my prisoner for the next twenty-four hours. And I get to do whatever I wish during that time.” Sakura sighed, accepting her loss.

Something was different, though. Tsunade had a mischievous look on her face as she turned around and began rummaging through her bag once more. Sakura’s face went cherry red as her teacher brought something out from the bag. A camera.

“MMM? HMMM!!” Sakura garbled in protest, shaking her head furiously. Tsunade simply laughed. “Remember Sakura, you brought this upon yourself. You were fighting a battle that you were destined to lose!” Tsunade brought the camera up into focus and zoomed in on Sakura’s terrified face, savoring her victory. “HMMMPH! NMMMH!” Sakura cried out, shaking her head more. ‘This isn’t like Tsunade at all!’

Tsunade prepared to take the picture. “Say cheese, Sakura!” She said with a smirk. *THUMP* “What on earth was that?” Tsunade screamed as the barn shook from the impact. *THUUMP* The noise came again. It was coming from the large wooden door, which had been bolted shut. “No! There’s no way!” Tsunade said aloud, now beginning to look quite worried. *KRRACK!* The door crashed down, the large wooden bolt snapped in two. Sakura squinted as smoky dust filled the barn. “MMM!?” Sakura gasped in shock. The smoke cleared and a familiar figure stood at the door, nearly a dozen handcuffs hanging off of each arm. A familiar figure that looked quite pissed off. “HMMM?!” Sakura squealed. A second Tsunade stood in the doorway, not looking happy at all.

With a look of both fury and delight, the second Tsunade extended a finger towards the one with the camera as she quivered in shock. “Drop the camera, Ino!”


TO BE CONTINUED