"We can't show this to our guests, can we?" Mashiro is the number one host at Blanc. But then Blanc and Noir, the sister company, merge, causing Mashiro to lose his spot to Noir's number one, Reiya. He's good at pulling in the money, but he's got a nasty and arrogant attitude. This really put a bad taste in Mashiro's mouth, since he's working hard to pay off his family's debt. However, one day Mashiro makes the decision to break the rules and sleep with a customer. But before he can go through with it, Reiya catches him outside the hotel. Mashiro prepares to get fired, but Reiya gives him a wad of cash and tells him, "If you're going to sell your body, sell it to me."
"We've known each other ever since we were in diapers. I thought I knew everything there was to know about him."
Natsuo attends the same college as his childhood friend Misaki. Campus life for the two has been going swimmingly. And because of their overwhelmingly good looks, these two never have a shortage of girls lined up after them. At a drinking party one night, Natsuo learns that Misaki acts surprisingly cute and spoiled with his girlfriend, a stark contrast to his usual aloofness. Shock soon transforms into obsession, as Natsuo begins thinking about Misaki every waking moment...! When it comes to Misaki, he has to see it all! His cute side, his body...
College student Kuki looks like a player at first glance, and his history of being dumped by girlfriends for his high sex drive isn't helping his case. When he bumps into his classmate, Yukina, one day and tries to hand back the guy's fallen earbud, he gets a "Let go! P*rvert!" for his troubles. Now Kuki's worried he might have offended Yukina somehow, but when he tries to find out what he did and apologize, it's like talking to a brick wall. In the end, Yukina flat-out runs away from him and Kuki is now positive the guy hates his guts... until they run into each other at a bar one night and Yukina does a 180, diving in to kiss Kuki out of nowhere. Seeing the frosty Yukina so needy and disheveled is too much for Kuki to resist and it's only a matter of minutes until they're going at it in a nearby hotel. It's the best sex Kuki's ever had - so good that he passes out from the bliss (if you can believe it). And if that wasn't enough excitement for one night, Yukina drops a bombshell on him once he wakes up...
"I'm comfortable, yet I feel uneasy. I want to stay away from him, yet I want to touch him." "Love is just an annoyance." Shintaro, who is apathetic about others, meets Kippei, who becomes his mentor at the design company he enters. Shintaro first thinks of Kippei as just another coworker, but as the caring and friendly Kippei easily breaks down the walls around him, Shintaro begins to have interest in him. One day, Shintaro ends up crashing at Kippei's place after going out for dinner. Being drunk, Shintaro tells him that he's gay, and kisses him...! *Chapter 5: "Your Home" is a one-shot written by this author, and is not related to the main story.
24 and 39 finding love in the office! Yataki has been working as a manager in an office for entertainment for a long time, and from working in the industry has come to feel that most decent adults don't really go for flings or romance. He's put some distance between himself and the idea of romance and has been dedicated to his work for as long as he can remember. At the same time, Takaya is a new member of the team who has been assigned to work under Yataki. One day, after a mistake in the hotel reservations for their work trip, the two have to now share a bed...?!
Akihiko has never known his true worth. Ever since he was a child, no one has ever needed him. On the verge of giving up on life, he's saved from certain death by Kazushige, a vampire who's doomed to an eternity of loneliness. To repay Kazushige, Akihiko continues to visit him, much to Kazushige's chagrin. Fed up, Kazushige drives him away. But he soon realizes that Akihiko's awkward kindness has touched a part of him that now yearns to learn more about Akihiko.
No matter how hard he struggles, Nimi has always been second best. He's always been compared to his much more capable brother, and after struggling for years, he's finally found a job at a big-name company. He thought he had finally found his dream job, but when the new hire, Ichijo, comes in and steals the show, Niimi is left swallowing his pride. After a work party, Ichijo drinks too much, and Niimi offers to help him home. When they get to Ichijo's place, he suddenly confesses to Niimi?! Caught in the embrace of Ichijo's sweet words, Niimi sheds his inhibitions and reveals an embarrassing side of himself amid a night of passion.
The next morning, Ichijo's demeanor does a complete 180, and he starts goading him. "Did it feel good getting devoured by someone you hate?" An obsessive high-class man with a bad personality and a man who never in a million years will be on top... an office love story of an awkward guy who's led by the nose by someone he hates.
"I want many more people to recognize your talent and appeal." - Orihara takes pride in Narikawa, the actor whom he manages. Narikawa is wary of strangers and distrustful of other people, but he has a pure heart, and his incredible acting skills set him apart from other young actors. While supporting him closely as a manager, Orihara begins to grow fond of him; finally, he agrees to help relieve certain physical urges for Narikawa. From then on, Narikawa's attachment to Orihara grows deeper day by day, until...? A quiet, but intense romance between a clumsy actor and his older manager.
"That does it; my life is over now, for sure...!" -- Though he's good at his job, due to a stubborn streak and an overly serious attitude, office worker Sakura tends to take on too much. But he has a secret - after sunset on the weekends, he becomes "someone else." However, his junior coworker Arima sees him in this other form, and Sakura even gets stuck sharing his secret with the guy...!! Can straight-laced, earnest, bespectacled Sakura handle the onslaught from his blank-faced, pushy junior on top of all the rest of his stress?!
One day, my older brother came home with a young coworker, and I'd never seen someone so innocently, earnestly, uselessly in love as this guy was. What does he mean, just looking is enough for him? Getting off is obviously the better option here. His attitude was a novelty to me, as a notorious slut (and card-carrying bottom to boot). So at first it was out of curiosity, plain and simple, that I laid hands on him without a second thought (figured I'd let him show me the sexual side he can't show to the one he so virtuously loves). That was the idea, at least...
College student Ichiki can't help but beguile everyone around him with his dazzling smile. But the one person he's head over heels for is... his ultra ordinary manager Mr. Yomura! Homely but hardworking Mr. Yomura stole Ichiki's heart, and after a tireless pursuit Ichiki managed at long last to get his hands on boyfriend status. Now, three months since they started dating... they still haven't made any progress in their relationship?! Even with all the romance tactics popular-guy Ichiki has at his disposal, Mr. Yomura is a formidable conquest...
Playboy Yamada and earnest Takahashi. Oddly comfortable around each other despite being complete opposites, these two were always together. They took it for granted that those days they shared would go on forever, and yet... Even after going their separate ways, they often overhear gossip about each other. The passage of these two years has only deepened and complicated their feelings. They cross paths again, and in that moment, what course of action do they take...?
"If I went to Tokyo, maybe I could get a boyfriend!! Maybe I could fall in love!!" Or so he had always dreamed. But when college student Shota finally makes his first visit to Tokyo's gay district, Ni-chome, he strikes out big time. While despairing that he's just not cut out for dating, Shota comes across a foul-mouthed but kind donut shop owner and the delicious donuts he makes, which both help him start to get back in high spirits. However, when Shota accidentally catches sight of a new, more R-rated side of the donut shop owner... What will happen to this airheaded college student, and his dreams of true love, at the hands of this "adult" donut shop owner?!
"I've missed you, Shota…" "Tohru... Me, too...!" I still can't get used to it no matter how many times we do it, so sometimes it hurts a little... But it feels so good... When Shota returns to Tokyo after visiting home, he and Tohru enjoy a long-awaited reunion. He brings back happy news - he's come out to his family and told them that he's dating a man - and the pair's love starts heating up from there! But in the midst of that happiness, Shota starts to worry that he isn't the right match for this handsome older man and is only a burden on Tohru, and misunderstandings begin to grow between the two of them...
After splitting up with his friend with benefits, he's just been building up stress with no outlet, and so police officer Ritsu spends every day working at the neighborhood police station bursting with irritation. When a chance encounter brings him to Naoya - a man who's got Ritsu's ideal "package" - his irritated mood does a complete one-eighty. His skin is glowing, his spirits are high, and everything's coming up roses... or so he thought?!
Sumito Kayashima, a wealthy man from a long-esteemed family, passes his days in solitude. It is hard to say what our Mr. Kayashima was thinking when he suddenly visited his gardener's home... and confessed that he was in love. Angered by this high-handed and unilateral attempt at courtship, the gardener made Mr. Kayashima a cruel demand...
The wealthy Mr. Kayashima has a fine pedigree and a vast family fortune, with which he leads a solitary and idle life. Having wanted for nothing until now, our Mr. Kayashima has found an object of desire for the first time - an arrogant gardener with neither status nor fortune!
Born to a family of high standing and in possession of extraordinary wealth, Mr. Kayashima is a man of great means. He is indifferent to the ways of the world outside his mansion and rarely given to passionate emotion. And yet, our Mr. Kayashima has suddenly barged in on a visit home taken by the gardener with whom he is having a secret love affair...! In this volume: after sneaking along to the gardener's family home, a night of summer fireworks; the sweet ache of mistaken intentions in autumn; and a joyful Christmas spent in a wintry garden...
On my first day working part-time at a bookstore, the trainer Kai was so mystifyingly handsome that the very next day, I impulsively asked him out!! He was so quick to agree that I couldn't help asking, "Are you sure you understand what I mean?" But he fired back with a heated kiss and said, "You mean this, right?" That blitz attack had me completely head over heels, but then I learned of a rumor about Kai: "He'll hook up with people, but he never lets things get serious." Huh...?!
"I've been in love with him...ever since that day when he cried underneath the fake, starry sky. I didn't initially intend to confess to him. I only wanted us to be closer - to spend more time together... So how did things end up this way...?" Kawai is a member of his high school's Astronomy Club. He grows close to Ohara, his fellow classmate, when Ohara helps him out with his club's exhibit for their last school festival. After the two graduate, their paths begin to diverge, little by little...until one fateful day. So close that they can feel each other's breath, yet so tragically distant. A romantic tale of two men constantly just beyond each other's reach. Chasing after one another, like shooting stars.