In the title story, Kurata and Narusawa are friends with benefits.  Attending the same school, although Kurata's attendance tends to be spotty, they came together two months previously, after the breakup of Kurata and his girlfriend.  Out drinking with a group of friends, Kurata approaches Narusawa on a whim, thinking he is good looking, and offers to "do him".  Although as it turns out, it is Narusawa who "does" Kurata, and that same day!  And ever since then they have been meeting in Narusawa's room to have sex with one another.  Only now Kurata belatedly comes to realize that their relationship is more than simply physical to him, he is in love with Narusawa, but he worries that his lover/friend doesn't see him as anything but a way to scratch an itch – he never calls Kurata,  never initiates anything, and as Kurata has never been with another man, he wonders if that is just how it is done between males.  But when a casual acquaintance queries him on their relationship, in order to satisfy his girlfriend's curiousity, Kurata blurts out that it is only sex!  And he is appalled with himself for having done so.  Then he tells Narusawa that he can't see him for a while because he doesn't know how to handle just being wanted for his body.  So he turns for advice to the girl he dumped originally, to help him with his confusion!  February Rain begins on a rainy night as Chihiro is leaving the restaurant where he works, when someone rushes past him quickly, and the casher cries out for Chihiro to stop him – he is a dine and dash! Chihiro pursues the hooded figure, but when he catches him, he discovers that he is just a kid, and some instinct makes him phone his workplace and apologize for not having caught the offender, covering for him instead!  When he tells the kid to go on home, to his dismay the boy proceeds to puke…… Chihiro takes him home, gives him clean clothes while he washes his soiled ones, gives him medicine and puts him to bed, muttering about this spoiled brat.   The next day the kid says he has nowhere to go, no family, no home, that for two years he has been "kept" by an older man, so Chihiro lets him stay,  against his better judgement, and goes to work, but on his return, he finds that the boy, Masami, has been drinking – having used a credit card in his possession to obtain liquor – and that he has taken the liberty of going through Chihiro's possessions, and that if he wants them back, he will have to hang out with Masami all night before he will tell him where they are!  And so the game begins, as the two go from restaurant to restaurant, at Masami's expense – will Chihiro learn the truth about Masami, and the story of his "possession" by the older man?  And what will he do with the knowledge?

 The third story in this volume is Anti-Dramatic. Yushima and Shiba are living together.  They both attend (different) colleges.  Yushima is the responsible one, having to help keep Shiba on the straight and narrow path, including giving him a wake up call in the morning just so that he'll get up on time.  When Yushima learns that Shiba has become friends with another guy in his same major, he asks for the other guy's phone number – as well as the numbers of Shiba's other friends – just in case, which Shiba takes as a lack of trust.  But it is Shiba who worries that he can't trust Yushima, who is very good looking, and when he gets a temporary part-time job helping his uncle with some paperwork as he prepares to move his office, Shiba finds his own jealousies aroused.  Especially when Yushima forbids him from coming to the office, claiming he will be a distraction!  Shiba has a low theshold of boredom, how will he handle Yushima being gone so much?  Determined to be good, Shiba plans a surprise dinner, but when Yushima can't make it home, Shiba gets drunk – will the consequences of his actions tear them apart? The next story is Let Me Knock On The Same Door. Imamura and Toyahara work in the same office.   Imamaura has been in the business for ten years, working hard to get ahead, and be successful at what he does. He met Toyahara when the other man spilled curry on him in the cafeteria – they've been friends ever since, both developers at the same game software company.  Imamura feels that the younger Toyahara has a great deal of talent, and that a bright future lies ahead of him, that he deserves better than working with him in order to do it. In fact Toyahara is approached with the chance to work with the director of the company himself, but he says nothing about this offer to Imamura, continuing to hang about the older man's office. When Imamura learns that Toyahara has refused the director's offer in order to work with him, he can't believe it, and he feels that he is leading him away from his path to better things, so he forces a confrontation with the other man.  Will they ever understand just what it is they are each looking for, and is there a future for the two of them together?  In Cooled Passion Arisaka is a journalist working on a story about a member of Japan's Diet (comparable to the U.S. Congress), and his employer is pushing for it, knowing that Arisaka and the Diet member's son Tsutsumi were once colleagues, but Arisaka seems reluctant to use that connection.  An accidental meeting between he and Tsutsumi leads to the latter granting his request for an interview, in which he asks Arisaka not to dig around in his father's affairs, prompting the reporter to voice his suspicions, as Arisaka charges his former friend with linking his own father's death with an incident in their mutual past.  Was it suicide, or murder?  Accusations fly and passions rise – what will the outcome be?  And can such actions be forgiven?  In the final story in the volume, Loving Attraction, we return to Kurata and Narusawa as they become aware of the changes in themselves, as well as in the perceptions of their friends, since they have become more than "friends with benefits".