What would you do in this situation?

Waking up, Akira wonders if everything that happened the day before was just a dream. He turns around to find none other than Shirogane sharing his bed. Shirogane explains that he has become Akira's shadow, which is what allows Akira to temporarily remain human. All in the midst of Akira's normal behavior for a teenage boy waking up to find a man sleeping next to him.

At school, Shirogane plays his usual mischief on Akira, causing the latter to stand up and yell, bringing himself great embarrassment. Just then, a kokuchi appears, shattering the windows. The teacher and all students flee, and Shirogane leaves Akira, transforming him into his spirit-self. Unlike the previous night's kokuchi, however, regular humans cannot see this one, and it's bigger and badder. Leaving Akira to fight the kokuchi, Shirogane attends to another (more pressing?) matter - some sort of huge red rift on the side of the schoolbuilding. Akira is having trouble with kokuchi 2.0, attacks to its body do nothing, and he gets pinned down by it. Finishing his task, Shirogane quickly comes to aid Akira. Shirogane's bitten in the shoulder by the kokuchi, and Akira wards it off by stabbing it in the eye, which frees Shirogane to stab the other eye. Like any good hit on the weak point for massive damage, this vanquishes kokuchi 2.0.

Super-special transformation!

Of course, both Shirogane and Akira are now quite injured. Shirogane leads Akira to a place called Bar Still, to meet someone named 'Master'. (Oh, real inventive.) The man's real name is Wagatsuma Shuichi, a blind human bartender who can do spirit healing. He first heals Akira, but Shirogane's injury is a bit more difficult.

Kokuchi 2.0's fangs were left embedded in Shirogane, and removing them might cause him to die. Of course, leaving them WOULD cause him to die. 'Master' requests that Akira remove the fangs. While Akira makes mad love to removes the fangs from Shirogane, the latter explains that the balance between the real and shadow world is dissolving, etc.

After Shirogane's healed up and good to go, Shuichi asks him why he became Akira's shadow, wouldn't a Instant Doppler have been easier? Hearing that an Instant Doppler could substitute for a shadow just fine without having to deal with Shirogane's advances, Akira immediately demands it. Shirogane throws out a creepy doll, and tells Akira to step on it. He does, and is transformed back to a human. Akira begins to complain more, but is told by Shirogane that if he does not fight, the people of this city - as well as his friends and family, will become victims. (Stop complaining, you already lost your doppelganger or whatever, just be a good boy and embrace Shirogane's love. xDD)

Leaving the bar, Akira comes face-to-face with Aya, and immediately realizes what the sign behind him says… 'Bar Still'. This earns him Aya's wrath, who immediately begins throwing her newly bought grocery eggs at him. Shirogane, who is standing nearby, is hit by one of the eggs… hmm.

Not so corporeal after all?

Thoughts:
Aside from the 'Yatta!' moments of infringing Yaoi-ness, there was quite a bit of forced humor that made me groan more than anything. Kind of like… oh right, Hatenkou Yugi.
Besides that, the whole needing to fight some evil nefarious darkness that keeps attacking the main character and therefore endangering everything and everyone around him plot is so overused. Not to mention the gaping plot holes formed by the lack of any reason why the kokuchi keep attacking. Oh right, there was also that random eyepatch villain you-didn't-see-his-entire-face guy who chafed at the defeat of kokuchi 2.0.
Based on how I feel, I may *actually* drop this, unlike Hatenkou Yugi. Well, seeing as how my workload this season is much greater than the last…