#ticklish five

Day 1: Anticipation

Characters: Lee! Five Hargreeves, Ler! Klaus Hargreeves

Warnings: Tickle fic, implied past drug usage

‘You have five seconds to run.’ Klaus stated calmly, crossing his arms over his chest. The ghost whisperer had a stern, yet subconsciously playful look on his face as he stared Five down. The boy could only offer Klaus a huff in response. ‘Do you think I’m scared of you?’ He asked, his voice laced with provocative arrogance, while he fiddled with his sleeve.

‘Four,’ Klaus warned, taking a small step closer, which Five mirrored by taking a step back, more cautiously. ‘I’m not a kid,’ Five’s arms hugged at his chest, copying Klaus’ pose with a threatening look plastered over his face.

‘Three,’ Klaus continued, ignoring his brother’s statement, watching him slowly crumble to his words. Five let a shaky breath exit his quivering lip, not daring to take his eyes off Klaus. Five’s hands balled into fists as his nails anxiously dug into his palms.

‘Two,’ Klaus let a small smile break his expression, gaining a bit more leverage over Five as he took another step closer, letting the mischievous reality of his situation sink in. Five looked around the room for only a second more, before squeezing his eyes shut and digging at the air in front of him, power laying in his hands. Klaus watched the boy disappear in front of him with a small smirk. ‘You can run, but you can’t hide!’ He called out aimlessly to the empty house.

Five appeared upstairs, pacing back and forth in an empty bed room, unaware to all the noise he was making. His eyes gazed around the room rapidly, searching for any place to hide from his brother in, until his eyes settled on the closet in front of him. Five didn’t allow himself to second guess his decision, his hands gripped the closet handle and flung open the doors, hopping inside. His small stature began sliding down the interior of his hiding spot until he was curled up, hugging his knees to his chest and burying his mouth in his sleeve to muffle his panicking breathing.

Klaus had already heard the boy shuffling above him and merrily skipped up the stairs, shoving open the bedroom door with his hips. ‘Oh, Five, where are you, come out to play~!’ He closed the door behind him, looking around the dark room slowly and carefully, not wanting to accidentally miss him. Five felt his face heat up at Klaus’ generic teasing, but it was far too effective on him. The time traveler’s boys face broke out in a fiery red blush, his eyes painstakingly watching Klaus look around the room. All his instincts were telling him to bolt it, run for the door and not look back, but a smaller part of him felt safer here. Safer with Klaus.

‘Not here, not here..’ Klaus murmured to himself, pulling the covers off the messy bed, before his eyes settled on the warm closet. The door to it was slightly ajar and Klaus grinned mischievously at the sight, taking slow steps closer and closer. His hands began softly knocking at the sides of the closet, letting his nails rake against the wood, creating a low, almost beckoning, teasing sound that filled Five’s ears. ‘If you come out now, it’ll be easier on you~!’ He offered.

Five was tempted to just give himself up at that point, he really, really wanted to, but his pride got in the way. He couldn’t just let go like that, it would be humiliating to be broken by just some teases. The boy stayed put, hitching his breathing as he inched further back in the closet. Klaus waited for a second, ceasing his touch against the closet as an eerie silence filled the room. The addict stayed silent for a little longer, letting the anticipation build up in his brother before swinging the closet doors open, and bending his face down towards Five’s. ‘Got you!’

Five let out a small squeak and scurried backwards, before darting against the carpet, scrambling to get to his feet. That’s when he felt it. Small pinched and squeezes at his sides, which caused the time traveler to absolutely crumble against the floor, twitching and squirming around as his only defence. Five bit down on his sleeve, not wanting to let any laughter out just yet. ‘Come on, it’s no fun if only one of us doing the work!’ Klaus mocked his attempts to hide his laughter,placing his hands against Five’s stomach, leaving them there for just a few seconds. Five’s breathing hitched at the feeling of Klaus’ hands, though he made not attempt to get away. He just eyes class, slowly regaining his breath, looking confused at his hands. His body moved barely an inch away, before Klaus’s long nails began clawing and scratching at his belly. Five’s body thrashed and squirmed, letting his legs kick back and forth in the air. ‘K-klaahahahaahus!’ The older brother squealed out, pounding his arms against the harsh, carpeted floor. ‘Yeah, what is it?’ The younger sibling responded casually, digging his nails further and further into Five’s belly, before wriggling them around further. ‘N-naahAHAHAHAahahahahahah!’ Five’s back arched downwards, his belly sucking in as much as possible. His mind was in a panic mode, between just letting this happen and running away, squirming about and writhing against his brother’s skilful, dexterous fingers. Klaus meanwhile, was having the time off his life. I mean, who wouldn’t be? Being able to break the strong, snarky Five Hargreeves with just a little bit of tickling was an impressive feat. Klaus’ nails began painstakingly slowly raking down Five’s belly, sending the boy into absolute stitches, hiding his face in his elbows. Klaus’ fingers arrived at his hips, his thumbs began slowly circling into the sides of the older Hargreeves’ hips, not even trying to tickle him, but Five was still squirming back and forth and giggling. ‘W-waihahahat, Klauhahahahahas!’ Five pleaded, reaching out to his brother, his fingers spread out as he was practically pleading for him not to go for that spot. ‘That’s my name, don’t wear it out too much!’ Klaus teased with a smile, unleashing all of his fingers to drill into the smaller Hargreeves’ hips, sinking into them as the intense ticklish sensations ran further through Five’s body. ‘NAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAH, SWIAHAHAHAHAHAHATCH SPHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHTS!’ Five ordered loudly, his hood buckling up and down wildly, his torso twisting from side to side. ‘If you insist!’ Klaus offered with a grin, pulling his nails from Five’s hips, and letting them trail down to his exposed knees, causing Five to awkwardly shift against the floor, locking on with a slight panicked look. ‘K-klaus!’ He whined out, preparing to pull his legs away before he felt Klaus’s fingers squeezing at the sides of his knees. ‘WIAHAHAHAT, WAIAHAHAHAHAT, WIAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHT!’ Five squeaked out quickly, his entire body thrashing around, taking in deep breathes in-between his laughter. ‘I mean, you did ask me to change spots, you never specified where!’ Klaus reminded him, his nails finding their way behind Five’s knees and scratching, a bit more softly, at them. Five squealed out loudly in response, kicking his legs up way from his brothers’ fingers, before curling them closer to his body. ‘Okay, enough,’ the boy panted slightly, holding out his hand, wanting peace. The time traveler took in long, deep breathes, stabilising himself as Klaus patted him on the shoulder comfortingly, but moving closer to his sibling with a tender smile. ‘You know, you could’ve jumped away right from the start of that, but you let me tickle you to pieces!’ Oh, Klaus. You evil piece of shit. Five felt his face heat up, sputtering for a response as he knew he was right, but he just couldn’t find one. Five laid there, defeated, with Klaus smirking to himself from his new victory, leaving the room.

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1.) Five - Umbrella Academy

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2.) Kaminari - My Hero Academia

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3.) Steve Harrington - Stranger Things

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4.) Sokka - Avatar The Last Airbender

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5.) Ray - The Promised Neverland

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6.) Sydney - I Am Not Okay With This

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7.) Kurapika - Hunter x Hunter 

“Absolutely not!” replies Five, he goes to stand up, but he’s pulled down by Diego. “Are you sure about that, little man? Because I’m pretty sure I heard a squeak~” Klaus just sits back looking at what he’s created. Of course he knows he wants in on the action, but he’ll wait just a bit. Soon enough, Diego, Vanya, Ben, Allison, and Luther are surrounding Five. “Awww, remember back when we were kids we used to do this all the time!!” states Allison. “Yeah I remember, the good old days” says Diego

Hello it deleted part three for some reason but I did read it and thank you you’re literally amazing and I love you so much!!!

And they absolutely destroy him but just a little bit because they don’t want to overwhelm him too much rn other wise they’ll all have to face his revenge and no one is ready for that. Five gets so flustered and blushy about it too and Diego won’t stop teasing. Klaus is just watching it unfold until fives turned fully away from him to confront and stop Diego, he just calmly reaches over and grabs him by his sides and starts squeezing! Five screeches and then his knees just give out. He is only being held up by Klaus at this point and Allison is laughing with Vanya because honestly Five looks so soft and he’s just giggling away with his dimple and I’m crying okay wow. Luther is just sitting back to watch them but Diego is the one who squats down on the ground next to him and holds Fives wrists as best as he can so he can go after the poor mans neck.

Five is literally all scrunched up in a ball, kicking out occasionally much to Diego’s joy (but also pain) he just slides down the couch on his back until he’s completely on the floor with the two brothers overtop of him. For the big finish Klaus hold his arms while Diego goes in for a big few squeezes on his knees. Five almost gives him a black eye with a kick to the face but it’s fucking worth it to see him all red in the face and embarrassed.

A lot of these are going off of @sugarfics and @ticklishraspberries fics and headcanons for five!!! they are amazing and I send them my love and appreciation!!!!! <3

+ He is “Too old for this shit” thinks “That’s childish Klaus get away from me.” “Don’t you dare Klaus I swear toho god  I whihill Kill youho.”

+Literally a little ball of energy, calm this baby boi with some ticks.

+Such a little shit head okay.

+His worst spots are definitely his knees/legs, neck and belly but is pretty bad all over. (His neck and belly make him squeal and its the cutest thing ever but his knees will make him literally die okay. full on screaming and inability to form words okay.I dont make the rules.)

+ He normally has a small giggle but he hates it because he is “older than all of them goddammit stop!” literally just a smol boi okay. fight me

+Refuses to admit he is ticklish even when in the middle of being destroyed, like he could be wheezing on the ground like “No I AM a GRown MAN I am nOT TickLIsh OKaY!!!”

+was probably gang tickled the most when they were kids, only rivaled by Klaus or diego on a bad week. (He has so much sass and sarcasm it was the only way for them to bring him down to their age okay guys) but occasionally he is seeked out by a singular brave soul and attacked. Normally Klaus or Vanya...

+ his face goes all scrunchy and red and and of the sibs would melt for him any day okay. but literally cannot handle teasing to save his life. at all okay. Literally NOt at aLL GUyS.

+When he lers though (which is much too childish a task for someone like him to take part in according to him) he attacks through spontanious jumps since he is stuck in his younger body and will very easily be taken down.

+Refuses to admit it but actually likes popping up behind the sibs and dishing some out, it drags out the process for revenge :))))

Klaus and Ben are pranksters and poor Five is their victim. He will never catch a break with all his siblings around. Tickles ensue.

Ben was bored, he had told his all seeing brother this at least five times in the past half hour. Klaus, however, was interested in his newest hobby, coloring. The two brothers had been filling page after page in the childish coloring books Diego and Vanya had picked out at the store earlier that week, and being honest, the ghosts hand was painfully cramping up. How Klaus remained unaffected was a mystery to him.

“Can’t we switch to something else for a little bit?” Ben all but begged. His counterpart shrugged his shoulders and gave a heavy sigh.

“You got any better ideas Benny Boy? No? Then shut your trap and grab some colors, I want to try to finish this Adventure Time book before dinner.”

Ben did not grab any of the many crayons that were spilt across the floor. Instead he thought in silence for a few minutes while Klaus continued his activities and grew to have a devious smile across his face.

“I know something we could do… At least, if you’re up to cause some havoc?”

“Havoc?” Klaus repeated. His full attention suddenly torn away from Princess Bubblegum.

“I do believe that was my word of choice. A disturbance or inconvenience to our dear siblings.”

Klaus was caught, hook line and sinker. “And what per say would cause such an unfortunate situation?”

Thus the two brothers devised their master plan for destruction to be enacted after dinner, during family bonding time, a recommendation of Vanya and Allison.

Which leads us into the situation currently at hand, baffling five of the seven Hargreeves children.

After a lovely dinner of chicken, peas, and potatoes the seven adults, one of who was a teenager still much to his displeasure, sat around the television with some random horror movie playing. The first hour was peaceful. All the siblings were squeezed onto two separate couches, Vanya, who was covering her eyes, Allison who held the former whenever she got scared and Luther, who watched them both at ever flinch, on one.

Five, Diego and Klaus stretched across the other. Diego was watching intently, fully entranced by the overused plot. Five on the other hand seemed the opposite and drifted in and out of a nap, completely oblivious to the ‘devilish nonsense’ about to take place in their own living room. Klaus, while would normally of at least attempted to stay still, was buzzing with anticipation.

The seventh sibling paced behind each sibling, carefully choosing his target. His decision finalized when Five was startled awake as poor little Katie found a knife plunging into her abdomen. He rubbed at his eyes before stretching as far as his little legs could.

Number six walked behind his newly returned brother, excitement flashing between his and Klaus eyes.

And the mischief began.

First it was just soft blowing on the teens neck and ears, this sadly only received a shuffle, not the reaction either brother was looking for.

Next Ben moved in front of Fives view of the TV, not that anyone could tell of course.

The first sign Five noticed that something might be happening were the small, quick pokes on his left side. He lasted a few minutes with minimal shifting but jumped closer to Klaus after an extra tingly jab in his left side. Ben was ecstatic, their plan was working.

After a few more well placed pokes Five stiffened and bit his lip, whispering softly to an innocent Diego. “Knock it off. I don’t know why you’re doing that, but I don’t want to be part of whatever game you’re playing.”

Diego severed eye contact with the screen in favor of raising an eyebrow to his smallest sibling. “I have no idea what you mean by that but be quiet, it’s just getting to the good bit.”

Five huffed and pulled his legs against his chest in protest, moving slightly closer to Klaus.

At this point Ben was collapsed on the floor laughing and Klaus was barely containing himself. Once Ben regained control he decided he couldn’t wait any longer, without warning he used both of his hands to dig into to poor little Fives sides.

Said Five jumped to the side, propelling himself into Klaus with some repressed noise between a squeal and a cackle before curling into a ball of giggles.This gained all eyes focusing in on the boy.

There was nothing he could push away, no physical hands he could see or touch, Ben had him fully at his mercy.

Ben switched places, a hand moving up to flutter on the side of his neck. The new spot must've knocked something loose in Fives mind because he all but doubled in laughter and finally found his words, or at least what could be an attempt at communication.

“Whahahahat is thihihis? Stohop, sTAhhahap ihit!”

This must of prompted the siblings into action, although not productive to helping him. Vanya was the first to come to her senses. “Umm.” She stumbled, “What’s going on Five? I don’t really understand.”Five only continued to laugh hysterically, oblivious to the words being fired at him.

Klaus was not so lucky.

“Awe, I forgot he was this cute Klaus. “ Ben cooed “His face is so red, and look! His nose is all scrunched up like a bunny. Lil bunny Five.”

Klaus felt his own face begin to heat up knowing he was the only one who could hear their dead brothers taunts.

Between Ben and Diego, Klaus didn’t know how Five hadn’t exploded, he was just about ready to and they weren’t even talking to him!

“Oh Five, I didn’t know you were still ticklish. I am so using this against you.”

“Lil baby bunny. Jeez, you’re just as ticklish as when we were kids Five.”

“Did you hear that? What even was that! A scream or squeal?”

“Oh my god, that voice crack was beautiful, can you do that again?”

“You’re so red!”

Even though the boy in question could only hear half of these taunts it was enough to get him flustered past his limits.

“ShuhuhHUT UHu-uhuhp! Mahahke it stohop!” He practically begged.

Luther still seemed to be confused, looking around for the cause, while the others had just accepted the situation as non dangerous for now. Diego even found himself pulling one of Fives legs from his chest and placing deadly, rapid fire squeezes all the way from his ankle up to the conjunction of his hip and leg.

Five nearly fell off the couch at that, screaming even more threats than before. It was truly a beautiful scene.

“Ihihi wihihill kill yohuhu! Diehegoho, nahahah!”

The girls chuckled at the playful brotherly display, it was rare to see such a wholesome scene within their family. No one really wanted it to end but as Fives giggles and pleas turned silent the tag team brothers slowed their fingers and hands to a stop.

The movie watching resumed without a second thought and Five slumped on his side, still giggling when the credits finished rolling. Before anyone could leave he stopped them all, “Who did it? I don’t understand. No one was touching me in the beginning till Diego decided to join in, which watch your back because revenge is a bitch, but it doesn’t make any sense.”

Klaus smirked at his newly younger sibling, “Guess it is a mystery. What do you think we should headline it?” It only took him a second to start throwing ideas out in the open. “Tickle Monster Loose in the Umbrella Academy? Time Traveler Left Giggling From Terrifying Tickle Attack?”

Five remained unamused and in a flash was gone, hiding in his room to get rid of the pink blush that had taken residency over his face.

Ben smirked from his spot beside Diego, “Don’t think I didn't see how you were blushing Klaus, maybe you need a taste of the tickle monster too.”

Klaus felt himself go stiff.

Anon: Hey can you write a fic about Vanya discovering she’s ticklish as an adult by Klaus or another family member? I saw it in one of your posts and it’s really cute.

Vanya wouldn’t say she was an outgoing person. She liked to stay in her room, minding her own business, and while her family would normally let her keep to herself it did not stop her from observing them.

   She was always watching her siblings. When no one was looking, and they usually weren’t, she would pretend to have powers like theirs. The eight year old knew it was hopeless to wish for something she would never have but thoughts, if she were special than she would be allowed to play with them. They sounded like they were having fun whenever their father was nowhere to be found and they could play out in the open. She rarely joined them anymore, but today she felt lighter than usual, she allowed herself to follow the laughter that danced and bounced off the walls.

Like, he is such a grumpy old man and I love him? What type of drunk is he before he gets to black out though? Would he be a playful drunk, sad drunk???

I feel like realistically he might be a sad drunk but let’s just think about playful for a second.

Could you imagine him getting drunk and showing back up to the house at like three in the morning? Luther, Vanya and Allison are all asleep like normal people but Diego just got home from his nightly duty, and Klaus is just chilling making some snacks or something to keep him mind off of other things

And their older little brother stumbles in (he lost control of teleporting and knows better than to try even in his haze). He starts rambling about small things with Klaus when Diego comes in.

I see Diego and Klaus as really playful characters at times, they would definitely take the older brother role in this situation and tease the heck out of their baby boi.

And Five is just giggling, one of the two are just like, “whatcha laughing about five???” But he just keeps laughing for a long time.

Eventually all of them are laughing and Diego just reached over and ruffles his hair a bit, but after years of being in the apocalypse you can’t tell me five wouldn’t be touch starved (probably doesn’t know how to handle it but craving some form of human contact and affection) and so he leans into his hand.

Five would never say anything about wanting to be touched, or that he is afraid of human contact but in a drunk state I wouldpicture him as a bit clingy.

Eventually they revert back to their childlike actions from when they were kids and Klaus gives him a few neck flutters or somethjng, Five probabky forgot he was even ticklish and what it felt like.

Immediate giggle fit, possibly snorts. The whole shabang y’know.