I am afraid to say that I own none of the characters, places, or techniques in this story. All that I have is this story line.

Prologue

Many, many years ago in the hidden leaf village before the Hokage system there was a creature, no a demon made of ice. The demon was the youngest ice demon born in his clan. The people of Kanoha were fearful of the ice demon however and began to hunt them down. To survive persecution the demons learned to transform their appearance into that of human beings.

Many more years passed and the ice demons youth had reached adolescence. As the young demon grew into a strong man his people still continued to die out. That is when the war first began. The ice demons and humans of the hidden leaf were invaded by a clan of fire demons from the land of Wind.

The fire demons laid waste to everything in sight burning everything to the ground. All available ninjas preferably male were asked to join the fight for their land. The young ice demon went along gladly to put a stop to the fire demons.

It took five years to push the fire demons back into their home land. The young ice demon however had grown fond of traveling in the Land of Wind. It was there that he came across a small town of fire demons.

At first he didn't trust the demons for their kind had killed many, but soon he realized that they were a peaceful group of people living off what they had. The young demon had planned to leave for the next town right away when he came across a fire demon female around his age. He instantly felt gravitated to her.

The female as well felt a pull to the young ice demon male and the two began to spend more and more time together. Before they knew it they were happily married and celebrating their wedding night. The male however felt bad about marrying her without first introducing her to his family and friends and so asked her to go home with him for a short while.

It took many moons and sun rises to make it back to the hidden leaf, and over the long journey the two seemed to fall more in love. When they arrived to the young ice demons village he took his wife to his home to meet his clan members.

The Ice Clan was shocked to see the fire demon female, and immediately went on the attack taking her as the enemy. They were even more surprised when their young male defended her. An argument broke out among the clansmen about what to do about the male and his mate when the clan elder, his grandfather appeared.

The clan elder stated that if the young male wished to remain with his family her must give up his female, but if he didn't then he would be exiled from the clan and the leaf. The young male refused both choices and instead went in search of his mother to introduce her to his mate.

His mother was outraged when she discovered that her son had mated with the fire female as they'd promised him to a female in the clan. She asked him to reconsider and when he realized that his mother did not accept his choice left the clansmen with his mate.

The two stayed in Kanoha for a night before deciding to pack up and leave the next morning. It was when they were on the trail to the Land of Wind that they realized something was wrong. They realized it too late as ice shards began to fly towards them.

The two fought bravely against the young males' traitorous family but in the end fell. The young male watched the light seep from his mates' eyes. He pulled her close for comfort refusing to part with her. He looked up and saw eyes his eyes for all of his clan had the same eyes. He was sad to think that his own family could be so cruel. As his eyes blurred he opened his mouth and spoke.

"You shall regret this day" he mourned in whisper before passing over to the other world.

The wind picked up at his words causing the leaves on the forest ground to fly. The animals began to stir and flee. The wind moaned in despair at the death of the two young demons and seemed to curse the clan.

Until the lovers were reborn to live without prosecution of their people the Ice Clans legacy and power would weaken within every generation. The lovers were reborn ten times and each time killed for loving one another. A hundred years passed before the wind began to stir.

"Let it begin again" it seemed to say.