Nobuna no Yabou: The generals mistake

'We've almost won! Don't let any of these basterds get away!' Katsuie shouted.
Her men replied with a roar of victory and chased after the enemy forces. The busty brunette turned around. As they were chasing, she saw that they were overextending their left flank and thus leaving Nobuna open for enemy forces to counterattack. She took a good look around the area. There were no more enemy forces free to bring up a counterattack, let alone to commit them to attacking her lord. With one last glance, she rode with the rest, chasing after the enemies who were the last line of defense to their master.
'Are you sure we can chase them this far, Katsuie-dono?' one of her higher officers asked. 'We're exposing our left flank.'
'It's fine. I already took that in to account and there is no possible way that they can attack our base camp.'
Suddenly, as they were talking, the enemy forces turned around, engaging them in battle.
'Wha-' Katsuie uttered, before she had to defend herself.
From the forest to their left, a large force appeared. Riding under the enemy flag, they were headed for Nobuna.
'Shit! We need to turn around!' she shouted.
'We can't! If we do, they'll kill us!' she got as a reply.
She evaded a strike and killed the one in front of her. She was desperate to kill the enemies in front of her and ride back towards Nobuna. It was all her fault that the base camp was exposed like this and if she wouldn't be there to help defending, it might just be the death of her lord Nobuna.
Every time she could, she would glance back to look at the enemy forces behind them. They were engaging in battle, slowly pushing back the allied forces. It wasn't long before Nobuna was also engaged in battle, fighting three enemies at the same time.
Even though she was a talented warrior, she couldn't fight three people at the same time. Before long, she was being overwhelmed by the three enemy soldiers.
'Katsuie-dono, watch out!'
A cry made her focus back on the enemies in front of her. She looked back in time to avoid a fatal strike, but she did get a cut on her cheek.
Normally, she would have never been cut by such lowlevel enemies, but her concentration was gone. It was behind her, at her lord.

The battle was over.
'Nobuna-dono, are you alright?!' Katsuie shouted as she jumped off her horse.
The first thing that she saw was that Saru, Niwa and the others were standing next to a field bed. They all had worried looks on their faces. She ran towards them. 'What happened?'
It was Saru who answered. 'We were attacked by enemy forces and Nobuna was struck down.
Her eyes widened. 'Is she...'
'Ouch!'
Nobuna had hit him in his stomach, making him fall to his knees. 'You idiot! Don't make it sound like I'm dead you moron!' She winched in pain, something Katsuie had never heard from her before. She had always been a strong woman, who had never showed any expression of pain. But now, she sat on her bed in with quite the painful expression on her face.
On closer observation, the female general could see bandages wrapped around her lord waist.
'Don't move to much Nobuna-sama,' Niwa said. 'You'll lose points.' She turned her attention towards Katsuie. 'We were attacked by enemies and Nobuna-sama engaged them in battle, together with the soldiers in our base camp. They were able to defeat them, but one of them stabbed her in his final moments. She came really close to deaths doorstep, but we manged to save her.
And she's already moving around as if nothing happened. Geez.' With a cold glance, she said:' Twenty points Nobuna-sama.'
'That's harsh!' the blonde girl muttered.
'It's all my fault!' Katsuie said as she fell down on her knees. 'It's all my fault you got hurt Nobuna-sama.'
'Hmm? What are you talking about Katsuie?' Nobuna asked.
'I'm so sorry. Because I overextended our left flank, they were able to attack you. Please allow me to commit Seppuku!' she said, trembling. Tears ran down her face.
The blonde Daimyo sighed. 'I will not allow you to do that. And you couldn't have known that there were enemies lying in ambush. If you had known, would you have chased them?'
'Of course not!' she loudly exlaimed.
'Well then it isn't your fault,' she borishly replied.
'But I still...'
'You still want to be punished?' Nobuna asked.
'Yes.'
After a moment of thinking, Nobuna said:' Fine. I'll think of something. In the meantime, you are not allowed to commit Seppuku. You shall wait in Gifu until I return there in two days. Then, I will pass judgement upon you. Is that alright with you?'
She nodded. Once again, tears made their way over her cheeks. But this time, they were tears of relief. Her lord was still alive. 'Yes, Nobuna-sama.' Slowly, she got up and she walked back to her horse. She glanced back, to see her lord again. She was alive, that was all that mattered.

'I am back my people!' Nobuna shouted.
Katsuie looked at her. Her lord looked quite well, considering the wound she had. There wasn't even the slightest clue that she had a huge injury. It was good to see her like that. And she would get her punishment now. She had to get one, in order to get her honor back. She hoped that it wouldn't be to horrible. Nobuna-sama could think of horrible punishments. And at the same time, the harsher the punishment, the better. She would regain her honor.

'General Shibata Katsuie, kneel down.' Nobuna said.
There was no one in the room except for the two of them. Her lord had ordered everyone to leave, so that she was the only one to hear the punishment that was going to be inflicted upon her. It was unique that Nobuna delivered punishment like this. For as far as she knew, this was the first time. She kneeled down.
'Shibata Katsuie, state your crime.'
'I abandoned my position in battle and endangered my lord.'
'You stated your crime and you also stated that you wish to be punished. I have decided on your punishment.
In your first wish, you asked me to commit Seppuku. I cannot allow that.' Nobuna smiled. 'You are way to valuable and to dear to me to ever allow you to commit Seppuku. No, instead, I have thought of a punishment that was close to the same. In older times, this was also allowed to be done instead of Seppuku. Yes, I find this a sufficient punishment.'
Katsuie looked up. 'Can you tell me what you have decided, Nobuna-sama?'
'You'll spend a night full of love with Saru,' she responded with a huge grin.
Immidiately, her face went red with embarresment. 'You can't be serious Nobuna-sama!' She thought about the time that he gropped her breasts. She still felt embarressed about that. If she thought about all the lewd things he could do to her... Her face shifted to a whole different shade of red at the mere thought.
'I was joking,' the blonde girl smiled. But then her face turned serious. 'You were thinking about it, weren't you?'
She couldn't answer. She just wanted to dissappear from here.
'No, I have thought of a different punishment. It was commen that, instead of commiting Seppuku, soldiers became monks. I'll not let you become a monk, but I'll have you shave your head, just like they did.'
SHAVE HER HEAD? Did Nobuna-sama really say that? 'Is that your punishment?'
Nobuna nodded. 'Yes. Return here in an hour and I'll punish you. Do you want any onlookers or just the two of us?'
She swallowed. 'The ones that saved you from my mistake need to be here, to see that I'm punished.'
'That's okay. Niwa and Saru will be here then. I will see you here again in an hour.'
Katsuie got up and left the room. All kinds of thoughts were spinning through her head. All kind of emotions were raging through her body. She was glad that she got her punishment, but shaving all of her hair off? She stroked her ponytail. On one hand, it would be easier. She wouldn't have to worry about her hair anymore. It would be easier in the morning. It couldn't be stuck between her armor plates.
But she loved her hair. If it was gone, she'd no longer be able to stroke it. It to flip it over her shoulder. And with a bald head, she would look like a freak...
With all kinds of thoughts in her head, she wondered through the castle, stroking her hair as she went.

'Any last words before we start?' Nobuna asked.
They were in the hall again. It was just the four of them, like Nobuna had said. Saru and Niwa were sitting in seiza, in front of her. Saru had big eyes. He couldn't quite grasp what had happened, but he had protested for a while, until Katsuie said that she wished for it. Then he had quieted down and he sat in silence.
Ninety points. That was the only thing Niwa said before she also sat down.
The two of them were now quietly sitting before the busty brunette. Nobuna had a small table next to her, with a short sword and a razor on it. Katsuie was sure that both of them were sharp enough to make quick work of her hair. But not quick enough, most likely.
'No, I don't have any words,' she said. Nothing but to spare her hair, but that wouldn't be the case. Then her punishment would be completely gone. And her honor with it.
'Fine. I will start then,' Nobuna said, as she picked up the short sword.
She grabbed Katsuie's long ponytail. She could feel that it was being pulled back, making an ideal place to cut it.
Nobuna slowly lifted the sword in to the air. Before the brown-haired general could process what was happening, she had already let it descend. It was indeed sharp, cutting completely through her brown hair. The ribbon fell out of her locks and on to the floor. The blonde Daimyo dropped the pony tail to the floor. There, it rested, as some kind of brown carpet. Unnoticeble for Nobuna, she grabbed some of the long strands from the ponytail. She missed it already. From the corner of her eye, she saw her lord putting down the short sword. She picked up the razor. It was nothing more than an ever shorter sword, extremely sharp. She always saw men shaving themselves with these. She hoped that Nobuna would be skilled with it, or else her head would be covered in wounds.
Before she realised it, she was feeling her hair. Now that the band was out, it had fallen back. The hair just above her nape fell just below her shoulders. It was very thin. Further up, it became thicker. The locks she felt were shorter though. The shortest measured not even three inches. Her bangs were still intact, but for how long?
Now, Nobuna was going to start with shaving the rest of her hair off.
'Are you ready for the second part?' Nobuna asked.
She swallowed. She swallowed again. But then, she nodded. As she nodded, she could feel her now loose hair stroke softly over her ears. It dangled around her head. She didn't want to lose it! 'Yes, I am.'
'Good.'
She took the razor and put it on Katsuie's forehead. It came as a suprise. She had hoped that she would start at the back, so she wouldm't have to see her hair fall. The blonde girl used her free hand to stroke her bangs back, so that it would be easier to shave them off. Slowly, she started to scrape away the brown locks. The general could feel the razor moving over her skin, seperating her hair from her head. As Nobuna went on, small tufts of brown fluff fell down, tickling her face. More and more of her brown hair fell down to the floor. Her scalp was becoming cold. The Daimyo was actually quite skilled at using the razor. Flowly but steadily, her skin was becoming more and more exposed to the air. She let go of her long locks and she moved her hands through the tufts and strands on the ground. She looked at Niwa and Saru. Saru had huge eyes and looked at her hair. His hands were on his crotch, trying to hide the buldge in his pants. She couldn't believe it. He was getting turned on by this!
Now, the princess was shaving the back of her head. She felt her head, carefully. The skin felt like grain mixed with sand.
The feeling in her legs was gone from sitting still on them. After what felt like an eternity, the scraping finally stopped. Nobuna stood in front of her, holding a handful of brown hair. 'Your punishment is complete. You can feel your head now.'
She did. She felt all over her head. She couldn't find a single hair. Not even one! The girl had done a great job at shaving her head. 'Thank you very much for your mercy, Nobuna-sama,' she said as she bowed. Then, she got up and left the hall quickly.
She found a mirror. To her suprise, she looked suprisingly well! She could even say that she looked better without hair than she had done with. Her head looked perfect. It brought out her features better. Her small, feminine ears were brought out, no being hidden by hair. And when her head was a bit more tanned by the sun, she would look even better!
She smiled. She got her honor back and she looked better than before.

For that day on, Shibata Katsuie was known as the bald general of extreme beauty, feared by her enemies and loved by all men.