Black Umbrella

I unlocked the door and stepped inside, "I'm back!" I called as I pulled off my shoes. "Daichi!" 

I walked into the living room to see him lying on the floor shirtless. When he saw me he raised his hand and glanced at me, "Yo."

"Why are you on the floor?"

"Hot."

"Turn on the air conditioner."

"Far."

"Honestly... You are so..."

I mumbled as I switched the air conditioner on, but Daichi didn't move at all, "Oi, get up."

"Mmm."

"Daichi!"

"It's fine, didn't we agree we'd just ignore each other? So just ignore me."

"Ah..."

Daichi and I had been living together for almost a year but we weren't married or anything. We worked in the same magazine company, 'Right Now' Magazine; it was the top selling magazine on the newsstands every week. My articles mainly focused on big events around town while Daichi did reviews and spoilers on upcoming new technology. 

My mother knew Daichi's mother, somehow the two of them came up with the crazy idea of making me and Daichi live together. So they both shoved us into Daichi's father's spare house and ever since then we've been living together. 

I sighed thinking about it as I pulled my hair tie out and ruffled my hair. I had to admit though, it was kinda nice sort of living on my own, and at least my mom didn't try to baby me every day. Most of the time Daichi would just ignore we and we would generally pretend the other person didn't exist, we had kept it up for almost a year now and our joint lives have gone quite smoothly... Expect for when we shower.

"Daichi! I'm showering, okay?" I called out from my room as I grabbed my pyjamas.

"No." Daichi's soft voice echoed into my room and I stuck my head out.

"What do you mean?" I began walking towards the bathroom to see a shirtless Daichi sticking his head out the door. "Me first."

"No way, I've been working late these past days and I'm all sweaty today. I'm going first!"

"I'm already in here."

I opened the door wider and stepped inside as I shoved Daichi out, I was about to close the door when he grabbed the door and pulled it open, "Oi, I'm first"

"No, me!"

"Don't make me."

"Huh?" Before I knew it, Daichi bent down and lifted me in his arms, the way he carried me princess-style made my heart race and his muscular chest pressing against my arm made me blush. He suddenly dropped me on the couch in the living room and threw my pyjamas on my head. "I'm first." he walked off into the bathroom and shut the door. I groaned as I went to the kitchen and turned on the tap; I turned the cold water on full blast and waited to hear it.

"AGHHHHHH! HOT!!"

"Hehehe, success!"

"Natsumi! I'm gonna get you!"

A few seconds after the bathroom door opened and Daichi came out still wet with a towel wrapped around his waist. He cracked his knuckles and smirked as he stepped closer to me, "You're gonna get it."

Suddenly, his hands wrapped around my legs and he threw me on his shoulder. I felt myself turn red from the feeling of his hands on my legs, I thumped his back with my fist but he didn't react. "Don't touch me like that! Put me down!"