As it was the rainy season in Shibuya, 19 year old Samejima Kiyomi woke up to the sound of raindrops outside the window.
The season was changing from summer to fall. She lied there comforted by the sound while her boyfriend Toyoma slept beside her.
She moved Toyama's arm off of her to sit up and couldn't move as he was lying on top of her hair.
Kiyomi turned to try to slide her hair out from under him without waking him up. She slowly pulled it out from under him and he moved. He turned and opened his eyes.
"Sorry baby," Kiyomi said. "You were sleeping on my hair."
"Oh' sorry," he said as he came too.
She sat up next to him looking at the rain outside. She just loved the sound of the rain in the morning.
Toyama sat up as well and reached for Kiyomi's hair.
"So, today is the day!" he said. "All of this hair is coming off."
"Yep," she Kiyomi started feeling butterflies thinking about it.
"You gonna miss it?" he asked.
"Probably," she said to him. "But. it's okay"
"I'm ready for it now."
Kiyomi and Toyama have been together for eight months now. She met him at a college.She was interested in him for a while. One night after a few drinks she invited him back to my place. As started seeing each other after that. One thing he said as we started dating was he never had a girlfriend with long hair before.He mentioned he likes girls with short hair and only dated girls with short hair.At first she was disappointed.
Kiyomi's hair is very long, almost down to her waist. She never had short hair before and never considered cutting it.
He told Her that if they were to become a couple she should consider cutting it short for him, as he would prefer it that way. It was something that bothered her at first.
Now at the point were they are a couple and in love with each other. Both share everything.
Toyama shared with her his fascination with short hair and she understand it now. she took the time to learn this part about him.
He showed her pictures and videos of his favorite types of haircuts and haircutting. Usually the haircuts are extreme long to short makeovers with clippers involved. Unfortunately for her, he loves Barbershop haircutting the most. He loves to see a girl getting her haircut at the barbers.
There is something submissive about the experience. It would be a very bold thing for her to do something like that for him and I've thought about it.
He bought a set of clippers and some large barber scissors and she've buzzed his head before and this acts as really good foreplay for them. She play a dominating role and shave him as a punishment.
Eventually Kiyomi told him that she would cut her hair anyway he wanted but only with the following conditions.
One, not until after her contract at work was finished. she was going to take some time off afterwards which would allow her time to grow her hair out for when she start looking for work again and going to interviews.
Two, he would have to buy her a wig so she would have something to cover up her short haircut with.
Well Kiyomi's work contract just finished yesterday.
So, today was her first Saturday of freedom. Toyama bought her a wig last week as he was planning for this day for a very long time.
It is a dark bob with heavy bangs. It sits around her jaw-line and the bangs just to her eyebrows.He spent a lot of money on it, as he wanted for her to have a good quality one.
Kiyomi love the way it looks on me and really wanted to cut my hair like the wig. She mentioned that to Toyama and he said, 'no way'.
He told her that she was going to be getting her haircut a lot shorter than that. She loved that controlling side of Toyoma.
He won't tell her how She was getting her hair cutt, either.He only said that he was going to take her to a local shop near the shrine and put her into the chair.
He was going to instruct the barber on how to cut my hair and she was not to say anything and just submit to it.
Kiyomi must admit she love being in a submissive role and this one is intriguing.
She was scared about how short he was going to tell the barber to cut it but this also added to the excitement.
She got up and went to the kitchen to boil the kettle. Her morning routine is a cup of Earl Grey Tea and she make Toyama a cup of instant coffee.
She came back to bed and sat there sipping theur drinks as they listened to the rain outside. They chatted for a while.
She started playing with her hair knowing that in a few hours it was going to be all gone. It was like saying good-bye to an old friend.
She came to terms with her decision and was trying not to think too much about it.
She like to get to experience short hair for the first time in her life and wondered what it was going to feel like.
Part of her is excited and part of me is really going to miss my long hair. It was getting closer to nine a.m. she decided to take a quick shower.This was to be my last shower with my long hair.
She went though her usual ritual knowing that next time she take a shower it was going to be very different.
After she dried her hair with my hair-dryer and went over it with her hair straightener. she wanted to look her best for today. she went to her closet to get dressed and thought, "What does a girl wear when going to a get a haircut?"
She went for the little black dress. It was loose-fitting and flowy. She slid on some black heels to go with it as well.
She checked herself out in the mirror and it looked amazing with my beautiful long hair. She was starting to have second thoughts now, looking herself in the mirror. She put some light make-up on to go with her outfit as well.
"What do you think?" she asked Jason.
"Wow!" he said. "You look gorgeous."
"You sure you still want me to cut all this off?" she asked him as she stroked her long hair out between her fingers.
"Absolutely," He said. "This is going to be so amazing."
"Okay," Kiyomi said nervously. "Let's just get this over with then."
She wasn't sure she wanted to go through with this but she wasn't going to back out now. Theygot ready to go and she locked up her house. It was a short walk to the shrine where the barbershop was. The rain had let up and the moisture in the air felt really nice.
We turned the corner of the forest and climbed the stairs and she could see the a small retro shop near the distance.
Her stomach started turning into knots. She was getting petrified now looking at it as they approached the shop.She held Toyama's hand and squeezed it tight. Shewas starting to fall into her submissive state now.
They approached the barber shop and Toyama reached out and opened the door for ger.She entered first and Toyama followed. As she saw, she saw a pale white lady worn in a black kimono.
She was cutting the hair on a customer and turned as we entered.
"To the Winds of flower, to the stream of the river, Katsumi Kejoro at your service"She said as she greeted them. Kiyomi nodded with a slight smile.
"Good morning Miss Kejoro," Toyama replied.
"Please taake a seat and I won't be long," she told them.
"Thanks," Toyama answered and she joined him on the long bench on the sidewall in the shop.
The shop was very small with one barberrete working.
Kiyomi watched as she did her work. Her client was an older middle-aged man having a businessman's type haircut with it parted over the side.
The barberette was running her comb up the sides and back, cutting away with the scissors rapidly over the comb. The sound of the scissors filled the room as he moved.
Kiyomi was very nervous as they sat there waiting.Sher started playing with her long hair one last time.
She wanted to back out but knew she ouldn't. They had been planning this for too long and she couldn't back out on a promise.
She just sat there and waited for her turn in the barber chair not knowing what Toyama had in store for me.
The barberette was finishing up snipping away her customer's hair and the sound of the scissors was silenced.
She watched as she lathered and shaved the gentleman's neckline with a straight razor.Kiyomi had never seen this done before.
The woman finished up by neatly combing the part over and undid the cape and slipped it off.
She took a hand mirror and showed the back and the customer nodded in approval.
It was her turn as she slowly got up, and Toyama got up with her and took her hand. He took her over to the barber chair and helped her up into it.
"Kiyomi is having her haircut this morning," Toyoma told to the barberette
"So, what are we doing?" she asked
"I want you to give her a short and sweet haircut,you know a sweet buzzed pixie" he said. "Really short with a number two up the sides and back and taper it."
"All right," the Kejoro responded as she thanked for the instructions and Toyama returned to take a seat on the bench to watch.
The barberette grabbed the cape and flung it over her sliding it over her shoulders.
"Big Change?" she said as she started to pull her long hair out from under the cape.
Kiyomi just smiled nervously and nodded 'yes'.
She didn't understand what she's getting but she just sounded like her haircut was going to be really short.
Kejoro grabbed a neck strip and wrapped it snug around her neck and pinned the cape snug around her neck.
She looked up at her reflection one last time with her long hair flung over the cape around her shoulders. She was trying to keep herself from getting emotional about this. She took in a deep breath and let it out.
With that the barberette was coming back around her with scissors and comb in hand. She started combing out a section right on top of her head and held it between her fingers.
Kiyomi's eyes popped as she watched Kejoro move in with the scissors.
As it sniooed, they closed right into her hair about an inch above her scalp. Thirty inch of ger hair was raining down onto the cape in front of her.
She was quick to comb out the next section and hacked all pieces of her hair.More of her hair was raining down over her shoulders and onto the cape.
Miss Kejoro worked her way up the top of her head reducing it to roughly one inch in length and moved his way over her right ear. The sound of the scissors was petrifying.
With every snip more and more of her hair would rain down into her lap. The right side was now completely cropped to roughly one inch in length like the top.
She heard the door opening to the shop and the barberette stopped her cutting for a moment and greeted the customer.As she looked over and it was a woman with her two young sons.
"Good morning," she replied and she made eye contact with her as she entered.
She had a surprised look on her face seeing what was happening to Kiyomi
"Take a seat and I'll be right with you after this," she told them.
"Thanks," she said and they took a seat next to Toyomi on the bench.
The barberette came back tilting her head forward with her hand and started cutting toward the back behind her right ear now. She held up section after section in the back and snipped away vigorously reducing the length all the way down to a short crop across the back.
She had Kiyomi's head down looking into the pile of hair that had gathered in her lap and could feel the weight getting lighter and lighter after each and every snip he took back there.
"Wow!' she could hear the woman say out loud as the barberette was cutting away. All she could feel at this moment was embarrassment to be seen like this.
The barberette was moving over to her left side as she was cutting away at section after section and was now taking the last few locks away from over her left ear.She finished and the sound of the scissors finally went silent. She looked at ger reflection to take it all in.
Her hair was very roughly cropped to about one inch all over her head. From her face and neck now that there was no more hair to hide behind any more. Her cheeks stood out more noticeably now without her long hair.
The barberette was coming back behind her again with something in her hand but she didn't get a chance to see it other than the chord that was leading to it.
She tilted her head straight down to her chest and she heard the sound of the clippers pop on. Nrrrrrrr ….. the sound of them filled the room.
Kejoro had her hand on top of Kiyomi's head holding it straight down and she felt the clippers being placed on her nape. They moved up the back of her head quickly in swift motions from her nape to her crown, pass after pass.
She tilted Kiyomi's head to the left and she could see them work their way up behind herright ear.
Then, over her right ear pass after pass taking her hair down to very short. Kejoro came over to her left side and worked them over the left side as well.Kejoro removed the head attachment on the clippers and came back for some more, tilting her head forward again.
She moved more slowly this time running them up her nape line creating a tight taper along her hairline all the way around the back and over her ears.
"This is how we lower your ears," she said to Kiyomi as she buzzed away at my hairline over my ear creating a tight fade.
Kejoro finished with the clippers and took a spray bottle and sprayed the top of her hair making it soaking wet.
She took a hairbrush and hair-dryer and started drying it straight back making it stick up on the top.
When she finished it was all spiked up on the sides of her head with a very round shape.
She took the clippers and a comb again and came back behind Kiyomi.
Kiyomi was mesmerized watching this transformation and how meticulously for a woman who knew to cut Short hair and worked at creating the shape. She worked slowly on the shape and took quite a bit of time until she was finally satisfied with it. Kejoro put the clippers down and hit the foam dispenser and white foam came out of it.
Shecame back around her and applied the warm white foam to her hairline across her nape and over her ears. He took a towel and placed it over her shoulder. She took a straight razor and tilted her head straight forward and slid the razor into her nape scrapping it across the back of my neck. Kejoro ran them up over her right ear and down her right cheek. She went around to her left side and ran them over her left ear as well and down my other cheek. Kejoro wiped hairline off with the towel and through the towel into a bin. She took a dusting brush and poured some baby powder onto it. She brushed off her neck and over her ears and forehead while she loosened the cape.
Kejoro slid the cape off of her shoulders allowing all of her long locks of hair to fall to the floor in front of her as she took a hand mirror and showed Her the back.
"Here you go.Miss" the barber told her with a smile.
Kiyomi sat there motionless and in shock. She didn't know what to say or do.
She got up and stepped slowly over the pile of her hair on the floor. She was shocked by the amount of hair on the floor and felt overwhelmed at the sight of it. It saddened her knowing that it was now gone forever. She walked back over to Toyoma told and he got up.
"Well!" she said to him.
"I love it," he answered with a smile.
"You are very brave girl," the woman said to her sitting behind Toyama on the bench.
"I know," she replied. "I did this for him.
"Thank you Miss Kejoro."
"She looks great," he said as he thanded her
"Enjoy your new haircut," she said to Kiyomi
"I'll try," she said.
Toyoma opened the door for her to leave and shr looked back as the barber was sweeping away her pile of hair.
They walked back down the main street to the side street for home. She could feel the cool fall air on her head and reached up to feel it for the first time.
She was still in shock. She thought this whole experience was too extreme and happened too fast. She knew now she wasn't ready for this change but it was too late. She just wanted to get home and not think about it any more.