"Help me wash up tomorrow too!" Tatsumi Azuma, a sociable third-year at Keyaki High School, crashes into second-year Shunpei Eguchi and fractures his hand. But the stone-faced Shunpei is no ordinary student--rumor has it anyone who so much as looks him in the eye is dead meat! Afraid of retaliation, Tatsumi tells Shunpei he'll do anything to make up for his blunder, so Shunpei puts him to work by forcing him to help out at his family's bathhouse! But now that they're stuck spending time together, Tatsumi finds there's more to Shunpei than his rugged exterior suggests...