The first part of the chapter is so me and my own mom talking! I read a bit to her and she started laughing saying that it did sound like us. I hope you enjoy!
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If You Just Realize
Chapter 14: Moving In and Red Lines
"He asked you to live in with him?" came the voice from the speaker phone as April put another object into a cardboard box and taped it up.
"Yeah Mom, he did," April said annoyed in the direction of the phone. This was the sixth time her mother had asked her the same question.
"How long have you two been dating again?"
April sighed. "For the fifth time, eight months. I don't see why you have to keep asking me the same question over and over when I know you got it the first time." She paused from putting a picture in bubble wrap. "Unless you're going senile or developing dementia."
"Haha very funny April. Of course I heard you the first time. I'm asking you repeatedly to make sure you know what you're doing." April turned and glared at the machine. "And don't look at me like that, I'm your mother, I'm only looking out for you."
April shook her head and turned back to her things. "More like annoying me to death."
"What was that? I can't hear you."
She grinned before leaning over to the speaker. "I said I know mom. But you don't have to worry; you know I don't do anything without putting major thought into it. And with Kurama I'm sure."
"Wait Kurama? I thought his name was Sushi?"
"Shuichi, mom."
"Oh, yeah right that." There was a pause on the other end. "What's with the two names?"
April sighed again. Something that happened a lot when talking to her mother. "I told you mom, he's a demon that was born to a human, so he has a human name and a demon name. Or do I have to tell you the story again because your brain was about to explode with all the information I gave you the first time?"
"Hey it's seven in the morning here so cut me some slack!"
April laughed. "Love you."
"Love you too."
"So did you get the picture I sent of me and Kurama at our friends' wedding?" April asked picking up the box and setting it by the other ones that were waiting to be brought to the new apartment.
"Yup and I must say, he sure is a looker."
April smiled. "I only go for the best and you know that."
"Yeah but I thought you were going to end up with some Mexican, like that Kevin guy you dated awhile ago."
April paused and looked at the phone. "Mom I gave up on that preference when I moved to freaking Japan. How am I going to find a Mexican guy when I'm in Japan?"
Pause. "I didn't think of that."
Shaking her head, April went and sat down next to the phone. "I miss you guys."
"We miss you too. When are you going to come back to the States and see your family?"
April sighed. "I don't know. I hope pretty soon. I mean my boss is understanding and all but I don't know about Kurama. I'm pretty sure he'll want to come but," sigh, "I don't know."
"Well we are planning another family reunion in the next July, so maybe then you can come and stay awhile and bring Kurama with so that we can meet him."
She thought about it for a second and smiled. "That's a great idea mom. I'll go ask for that month off and then I'll see if Kurama wants to go. He'll have seven months to decide."
"Alright sweetie, I'll talk to you later. Have fun moving into your new apartment. Love you."
She smiled. "Love you too. Bye." Hanging up, April got up and went over to the window.
Looking down at the street below she noticed that a moving truck was parked on the side of the road and Kurama and Yusuke were getting out.
'The Calvary has arrived.' Turning back around, she gasped and jumped. Hiei stood in front of her, smirking. "Do you really have to do that?"
He nodded. "It gives me great pleasure."
She sighed and went to open the door. "Yeah I'm sure it does."
Soon Yusuke and Kurama walked in. Yusuke looked around and noticed the boxes sitting in the entry way. "Damn April, did you get really bored in the last three hours we were gone putting the big furniture in your new apartment?"
She smiled at him and walked over to Kurama. "No I was talking to my mom while I was waiting for you guys to come back."
Kurama smiled. "How is Carol?"
"She's fine. Questioning why I'm doing this, like a mother should but is none the less supportive."
Kurama nodded. "That's to be expected."
Hiei snorted. "Yeah but your mother, Kurama, practically signed the lease for you when she found out you two were going to be living together."
Yusuke laughed. "And now your dream of sleeping in the same bed with April each night will finally come true."
April looked over at Kurama. "Your dream?"
He smiled at her. "When we first slept in the same bed after the movie marathon, Yusuke asked why I wasn't home that night and was wondering why. So I told him I was with you and of course he took it the wrong way, because we weren't doing anything at that time and I told him I would like to make a habit of it."
Yusuke snorted. "And now you do what I thought you were doing almost every night."
April turned and looked at him. "More like twice every night." She laughed seeing the look on Yusuke's face. She walked over to the boxes and picked up one. "Come on; let's get the rest of the stuff out so I can give the key back to the manager and leave to our new home."
~Break~
"Well that's it," Yusuke said putting down the last of the boxes in a corner of the living room. April looked up from putting her box down and scanned over hers and Kurama's new place.
It was right by where the portal that April used to go to work was and just walking distance from Kurama's shop. They couldn't believe their luck when they found it.
The apartment was a three bedroom, two baths with a spacious living room and a big kitchen. Something that April looked at first when they had checked it out.
There was also a room to do laundry. And on top of that they were living on the second floor, so they had a very nice, big patio with sliding doors.
That was Hiei's favorite part. Because apparently he didn't like going through doors. 'What a weirdo.' She walked down the hall to one of the rooms they were using as the computer room.
Kurama and she had decided that this room would have all of April's posters and would also be their little library.
When they had combined all their books together, they found that they could have probably started their own little library.
Right now Kurama was hooking up the computer.
Feeling sneaky, April left the room and quickly went and got her digital camera.
She had told her family that she would be taking pictures of her new place for them and she was going to; right after she took some of Kurama bending over to plug in the computer.
Tiptoeing into the room, she found him just the way she wanted him; bending over to connect the cords with his butt in the air.
Quickly focusing the camera she took the picture. When it reappeared on the little screen she giggled. Looking back at Kurama, she noticed he was on his knees looking at her.
She smiled at him and turned the camera for him to see. "You have a great butt, just so you know."
He shook his head and went back to work. "You know I'll have to get back at you for that."
April leaned against the doorway. "And how are you going to do that, oh great one?"
He stopped and looked over his shoulder at her. "That's funny; you said those three same words last night."
She laughed. "Yeah I think you're forgetting that you said that not me. Though unlike you, I don't need to be told that I'm doing a good job to keep me, shall I say, motivated?"
Kurama just shook his head and connected the rest of the computer. Standing up, he turned and walked over to April and put his arms around her. "I love you, you know that?"
She smiled up at him. "Yeah. I love you too."
He smiled and gave her a kiss. Together they walked out of the room and into the living room where Yusuke and Hiei were setting up the TV.
April quickly took over that job, so that left Yusuke and Kurama to moving around the furniture.
April had given Hiei the outline of how she wanted the furniture to be placed through telepathy, so he was giving them direction. Though Yusuke, of course, complained the whole time.
"Where the hell is Kuwabara when you need him?" he asked setting down his side of the couch.
"Unlike you, he's still in school and trying to make something of his life," April said not turning around as she stood in front of the TV and set up the programming.
"Funny April."
She laughed. "I thought it was hilarious."
About two hours later, they had finished putting everything away and had made a list of all the groceries they would need, which they would be picking up tomorrow.
April yawned and stretched from her spot next to Kurama on the couch.
Yusuke and Hiei had left some time before, after they were done unpacking and now they were sitting and watching some TV, since it was almost eleven.
"So is there anything I need to know right away about living with you that I won't figure out for myself?" Kurama asked putting his arm around her and bringing her closer to him.
She smiled. "Only that two Saturdays a month, every other, I go grocery shopping and the other two are my cleaning days. And when it's my cleaning days, no dishes are to be used until that Monday."
Kurama looked at her. "Is that why sometimes when I would come over to your old apartment, you would be eating fast food?"
She nodded. "Yup. But now we can call them our little date nights if you want."
He smiled. "Yes we should still have date nights, so that we don't get bored and do the same thing every day."
April snorted. "I don't know about you, but every day is a new and strange day full of different opportunities waiting to be found."
He laughed. "Yes I bet they are." Suddenly April got up, pulling him along with her. She started to pull him in the direction of the bedroom. "What are we doing?"
"Breaking in the new place," she said pulling into the bedroom and shutting the door behind them.
"What do you mean?"
She just gave him a look. "We're going to have sex right now in our new place. That's my definition of 'breaking it in'."
He raised an eyebrow. "Do you do this with every place?"
She smirked and walked up to him. Raising her hands she started to unbutton his shirt. "Just this one with you," she said before leaning forward to kiss him.
~Break~
"Are those the new pictures of your place?" Botan asked as she looked over April's shoulder at her computer as April went through the pictures to send to her family.
"Yup. When are you coming by to see it?"
Botan smiled. "When you decide to throw a house warming party."
April laughed. "That'll be pretty soon. Well as soon as Kurama and I are totally done cleaning and unpacking. We got the major stuff but not everything."
"What about his plants?" Botan asked walking around the desk and sitting in one of April's chairs.
April sighed. "I asked if he wanted to make the computer room/library a green house too, but he said no. He's putting most of his plants in his green house. Well, he's making a new section for them so that human customers can't see them."
"Most of his plants?"
April smiled. "Yeah he's leaving some plants that give off a certain scent that calms the person in the room. He said it would be perfect for me, since I worry over the littlest things."
"That was sweet of him."
"Yeah it sure was."
Botan smiled and got up. "Well Koenma-sama must be wondering where I am since I told him I'd be back in five minutes and it's been," she looked at her watch. "Over fifteen."
"I doubt he's noticed. He would have gone over the intercom if he had needed you."
"That's true. So how far have you gotten with the guys' files?"
April looked over at the two files left on her desk. "I'm almost done with Hiei's and then I have Kurama's to do."
Botan smirked. "Going to see how many people Youko Kurama has slept with?"
April smirked too. "Oh I already have. There are ten pages, three columns on each page and in size eight font of names on that list, single-spaced. I told him that one night and he looked embarrassed and said that, that life has nothing to do with him now. But it's still fun to tease him."
"Are you the only one on Shuichi's list?"
April nodded. "Yeah just like he said before."
Botan smiled and patted April's arm. "I'll come back later and we'll go have some lunch okay?"
April nodded again. "Sounds good to me." She turned back to Hiei's file after Botan left and put the sheet about his height and weight in its correct spot and closed the folder.
Placing it on top of Yusuke's and Kuwabara's, she turned to Kurama's and placed it in front of her.
Opening it to the page of past lovers, she scanned the names of the demon females and a few males that Youko Kurama had been with. None of them stood out like she knew them but it never hurt to look.
Suddenly three of the names were crossed out with a red line, indicating that they were dead.
'That was weird. I've only seen that with humans being killed at the same time when they were blown up from a bomb.' Shrugging she went to the front and went through his general information.
It wasn't uncommon for demons to die in large numbers during one day, but it was strange how three were killed at the same time, not one by one.
'Maybe the poor girls ran into a demon bomb or got their heads cut off in one swipe of a sword.' She had seen Hiei's list of killings grow at an alarming rate in just one hour before and he had killed forty demons in just a minute.
But then again that was Hiei.
Thinking about it some more, April got up and walked out of her office and down to the record keeping room. Walking down the many rows of files, she finally made it to the cabinet that held the three newly deceased demons' files.
Opening it, she pulled out the three demoness' files. Putting two on the top of the cabinet, she opened the one in her hand and gasped. The demoness was beautiful! Though that was expected when one was talking about Youko Kurama's lovers.
The demoness had long green hair with elf like ears and bright yellow eyes that stared back at April with such intensity that April looked away from the picture.
'Why would anyone want to kill such a beautiful demon?' she asked herself as she closed the file and put it back. Opening the other two she noticed that they too were very beautiful.
Putting back the files, April started for the door. Not paying much attention to things around her, she started back to her office deep in thought.
'It just didn't make any sense as to why they're all dead. With them being beautiful and strong. Though it could have been some kind of accident of some sort ugh-'her train of thought stopped there when she ran into something hard. 'What did I hit? A wall?' looking up she noticed a rather good-looking demon staring down at her.
He made her think of Sesshomaru from the show Inuyasha. Though this demon had black eyes instead of amber and they had amusement swimming in their depths.
"Sorry about that. Wasn't looking where I was going," April said giving her head a small tap with her fist.
The demon smiled at her. "It's quite alright really. Being run into by such a beautiful human such as yourself has been the greatest part of my day."
'What a smooth talking demon. Good thing I can see right through it.' She smiled up at the demon. "Right well I have to get back to work. Lots of paperwork to take care of." She moved around the demon and started for her office.
But she could feel his presence following her. Turning around she glared at him. "Can I help you with something?"
The demon cocked his head to the right. "Actually yes you can. You see I've been meaning to see about a certain demon that has something of mine, but I can't seem to find him. And I know that you just happen to be Reikai's go-to-girl when it comes to files on people, so I was wondering if you could tell me some things over dinner perhaps?"
She looked him up and down. "Sorry I'm taken. And I'm not going to give out any information about anyone so you can forget it." April started to walk away when she felt a hand grab her upper arm.
Turning back, she stared into the angry eyes of the demon. "I don't think you quite understand what I'm saying human. I'm not asking you for the information, I'm telling you. Now if you don't mind-."
"Let her go."
They both turned to see Hiei glaring hatefully at the demon still holding her arm.
Twisting her limb from his grasp, April stepped away from the unknown demon and looked between him and Hiei.
The demon smiled at Hiei.
"There's no need for that look Hiei. I was only talking to the girl, no harm done. But it would seem I must get going to another appointment I have. Good day to you," he said nodding to Hiei, who was still glaring at him. The demon turned back to April. "I take it I'll be seeing you again, yes?"
April snorted. "Not likely."
The demon gave her a hard look before turning and walking down the hallway. Once he was out of sight, April turned to Hiei.
"Thanks for that. I didn't even know that Reikai let other demons in here."
Hiei was still glaring down where the demon had disappeared. "They don't. Only the old detective team and the scattered few that work for them."
April too looked at where the demon had left. "Huh? Weird."
~Break~
"And then he was just like 'Why do I have to do it? I'm not in that department.' I thought I was going to kill him I swear Shadow," April said to her cat as they sat on the couch and watched Kurama cook dinner. They took turns cooking every night.
"Meow."
"Right? I mean really! What a jerk! All I wanted was a little favor he owed me done, and the douche had the audacity to ask me something in return. And he hadn't even done what I asked him!"
"Meow, meow."
April shook her head as she picked up Shadow and held her in front of her face. "It's like you were there! I'm so glad I talked to you," she said rubbing Shadow's cheek against her own. Shadow purred and licked April's cheek.
"You are so weird."
April looked over at Kurama. "Hey this is girl talk no boys allowed," she said sticking her tongue out at him.
He shook his head and went back to cooking. April got up from the couch, put Shadow down and walked into the kitchen and up behind Kurama.
Wrapping her arms around his waist, she laid her head on his back and sighed.
"Rough day?" he asked putting a hand on her folded ones on his abdomen.
"Something like that."
Kurama moved the hot pan of food to a stove top that wasn't being used and turned around to put his arms around April. "What happened?"
She sighed. "I was looking over Youko's file and when I was reading the past lovers part, three names were crossed out at the same time."
He pulled her away so he could look at her. "Who were they?"
She thought for a moment. "They were the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth demonesses on your list."
"And you said they all died at the same time?"
She nodded.
"But that's impossible. They were all S class demons. And if they were together, no one could hurt them."
April shrugged. "I know. It was weird to me too. And with that random demon that wanted me to give him information and-"
"What?"
She smiled. "Don't worry Hiei made him go away."
Kurama scanned his eyes over her. "Did he say if he was coming back?"
She nodded. "Yeah he said something like 'see you later' but I said 'not likely' if it'll make you feel better I can probably get Hiei to stay with me at work for awhile. I'm sure Mukuro won't mind if she learns about the situation."
He nodded and let her go. "Alright. Now let's eat."
A/N: Did anyone catch what the red lines were? PLOT! That's what that was. Next time on If you just realize, Chapter 15: Wrong portal, information and Youko Kurama. REVIEW!