Chapter 45 - 047: Yamato Nagamo

Chisato woke up on the morning with a start at the same time as usual, nervous about catching her train for her classes; then she realized that it was Saturday. Furthermore, it was her birthday when Katsumi wished her with tower of her favourite pancakes.

As she was excited for her birthday, she suddenly realised that she had made arrangements for her birthday present myself. Yamato Nagamo, her childhood friend had agreed to this of his own free will, although admittedly they were in the relationship. She reached to her phone.

"Hello, Nagamo? You up? It's me, Chisato. Good morning."

Nagamo sounded only moderately sleepy on the other end. He must have already been at least half awake when she rang. Nagamo even had the presence of mind to wish her a happy birthday and jokingly called me "Ah my stupid Neko !.. Happy Birthday!..".

"Yeah, Yeah,happy birthday to me. I'm glad you remember."

"Of course I remember. How could I not? Do you want me to come to your shop?"

"Come here."

After she got off the phone, She picked out her favorite green dress. Her grandmother had gifted her a day before her birthday.

She had met Nagamo at a school after a long time. He was cute and considerably younger than her; She was really lucky to have him as her boyfriend.

Speaking of the relationships, although she hardly particular or persnickety, she had been worrying that Nagamo would insist on keeping his collarbone-length hair shaggy and long.

He was young enough and had enough hair to not look pathetic, but Chisato secretly felt that he would be much more attractive with a nice, short crewcut or buzzcut that would make his eyes pop.

Nagamo had announced just two weeks ago that he would let her choose whatever she wanted from him for her birthday, so she had asked if he would be willing to cut off all of his hair. She promised him at least a good snogging afterwards, likely more, to sweeten the deal. Since their winter break was not until November he had plenty of time to grow his hair back if he so chose. Chisato was confident, however, that he would decide to keep his hair cropped after seeing the effect his short hair .

To her surprise, Nagamo had consented. When he turned up at her front door, he had his long hair pulled back into a ponytail. "I wanted to see what I would look like or how I'd feel without my hair falling forward onto my shoulders." She laughed and hugged him as she took inside the shop as she told that Katsumi would do his hair.

"Hello, Onee-chan, Nagamo is here for his appointment."

"Yes, I'm coming!" Nagamo saw presently a young woman no older than thirty five appeared. Even though she was young and had a pale white skin, she was reasonably pretty there and was nothing sexy or glamorous about her manner. She was all business.

When Katsumi laid eyes on Nagamo, however, she smiled. ". Nice to meet you. Let's get rid of that mop I heard about, shall we?" She motioned to him to sit down in one of the chairs. Who knew how long it had been since the last time Nagamo had been in a shop like this.

To Chisato's relief, he was flashing his million-megawatt smile and looked relaxed, and not at all resentful about the impending demise of his long r tresses. In other words, he was his usual irresistible self.

"It's very sweet of you to please my little sister like this for her birthday." Katsumi wasted no time in caping him up and inserting a tissue at the neck. Neither were going to mention her incentives or Nagamo's ulterior motives.

Katsumi picked up a pair of shears. She had already given instructions from Chisato about the details of Nagamo's haircut. Nagamo himself didn't even know what these instructions were, but the point of the deal was that he thrusted his girlfriend.

Nagamo could easily guess that he was going to lose his ponytail at the very least, and did not seem surprised when Katsumi sliced it off with her long shears the way she would .

As Nagamo shook out what was left of his long hair, Katsumi rummaged in a drawer for the correct clipper attachment. Katsumi snapped on a number four guard and turned on the clippers. "OK, here goes."

She plunged into his hair from the front so that he could see how short they were going. A momentary look of shock gave way to a mischievous grin. He was enjoying this, too.

was also smiling as she plowed through the long red hair, making pass after pass.

"You have nice, thick hair. The kind that looks great buzzed."

"Yeah, I'm from Hokkaido. so my family have the best hair." Nagamo was smirking now.

It didn't take Katsumi more than five minutes to mow down all of Nagamo's hair to roughly a centimeter. With a flick of her wrist, she sent the last tuft of long hair tumbling down onto the cape from his right temple, then shut off the clippers.

His expression clouded over for a moment until he heard Katsumi snap on a new guard. Good, the haircut wasn't finished yet. Chisato was a little surprised at how eager Nagamo was to be shorn, given the amount of time it must have taken to grow his hair so long. Perhaps he was simply ready for a change. More likely, he was thinking of his reward back at my flat afterwards.

Katsumi inserted a comb into what was left of Nagamo's hair at the back and sides as she began the fade. Chisato had asked for a medium fade, with special care taken around the ears and on the nape. It was fun watching her pull his ears out and down as she edged around them. Chisato had suspected all along that Nagamo had cute ears, and sure enough he did. They had been visible when he wore his hair pulled back, but somehow his ears seemed more adorable when the hair around them was buzzed.

Chisato knew Nagamo was easy on the eyes, but she had seriously underestimated just how attractive he really was. Without all that hair to cast a shadow over his eyes and obscure his jawline, She finally had a clear view of his face. His eyes looked bigger and bluer than before. The subtle height of the top and front of his crop helped, too. She had seen his face and jawline when he wore his hair pulled back, but ponytails flattened his front hair.

Chisato was shock to see a stud in his left ear Combined with the short hair, the effect was more bad boy than hipster. It was interesting to me how a change in hairstyle was enough to change the whole impression that his clothes made. A super-short crop would look good no matter what outfit he wore with it, whether casual or formal. It would work well with a kilt, too. She had seen a picture of him wearing one; She hoped he could be persuaded to wear one again, given how sexy he looked. His legs looked pretty shapely in the photo.

Nagamo giggled as Katsumi edged around his ears. Aw, it must be ticklish. She smiled to see Nagamo clearly enjoying his shearing. It occurred to me that the perfect present for his birthday would be a nice set of clippers. At this rate he would likely be amenable to letting me help him maintain this cut.

"There you go, all finished. A faded cut. Your girlfriend has good taste. This look really works on you. I hope you keep it." Even Katsumi herself seemed impressed with how delicious he looked. Too bad Chisato is already hers and she hopes her Onee-chan too finds love.

She leaned down over Nagamo in the chair and kissed his forehead from above. Chisato hugged her Onee-chan and went out with the freshly cut Nagamo to celebrate her birthday with her friends.