Genre= Mystery / revenge / angst / romance

Rating = R

Disclaimer= I do not own any of the Yu Yu Hakusho characters.

AN= I was bored and got an idea for a short ficlet. -- I know the chapters will be short, oh well. The idea just wouldn't leave me. It will be about 3-4 chapters long.

The main star you will have to guess. I hope to make it so it's not so easy, just like I did with the Inu-Yasha fic Bundle of Joy. I will name the many of the support, not all though, nor will I give the Star away until the end. Okay, I'll do this in parts. The first section will have the woman talking in the present, then after that are flashbacks. This= ;;;;;;;;;; separates the present from the flashbacks.

This =separates the different flashbacks from each other.

Revenge is a Dish Best Severed Cold

Ch 1 Love is a strange thing

As I look at all the blood spilled, I remember how the nightmare started, but back then it was not some bad dream. Oh no, in the beginning I was the happiest I could ever be. It was the sweetest dream to come true. It did take some time for me to accept my love's advances; after all I AM an ice maiden. My kind is an all-female race, no males are born to us...under the normal conditions that is. I mean, the normal condition is that we shun males; therefore we ensure that when we undergo our asexual reproduction, the child will always be female. For ice maidens to bear a male, we must lay with a male to sire it.

That was my so-called crime; I fell in love and made love to a male. As a result, I bore a son. Now normally in such a case the mother and son are forced to live on the far edges of the floating island of Koorime. The half- blood males are treated a little better than most males are on Koorime. Yes, the Ice Maidens do have males on the island, although most are slaves that are unable to reproduce. Don't act surprised at that. If we did not have males on the island, then how would we know what a male is or looks like? Merely because Ice Maidens do not need a male for reproduction does not mean that we have no experience with males. ;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;;

"NO!" I cried out before I realized it. The tall male that saved me from the riot a few months earlier was taking a beating in the final match of the Dark Tournament. I admit it, I like his humor and the attention he gives me. It is different than how the male slaves back on Koorime act.

All the sudden, he lets out a massive energy attack that leaves nothing of his opponent. It's over, his team has won the tournament. I blush red when I hear him speak. "My request is this: I want to stay with the one I have fallen in love with. I wish to be able to resist the deadly cold."

Since the victors are given what they wish for, he now has the ability to survive the cold as a means to stay with me! "You could have had any wish you desired!" I cried out in shock.

His gentle reply still fills my dreams. "That's just it, I did get my greatest desire, to stay with you."

I watch as he blushes as he stumbles over words to say. I strain my neck to look up at him, he is so tall. However, I do not mind, I enjoy looking at him with his dark eyes and unusual hairstyle. I never see anything like him on Koorime. It seems like such a contradiction that someone with such a fiercely hot temper like him is so calm and gentle with me.

I let out a small giggle as he finally manages to say something. "Have I told you how much I love you lately? That is the reason I followed you to your home after the Dark Tournament." He gives me the biggest smile as he wraps his arms around me.

Smiling I turned to face him. "That was two years ago that you followed my home like a puppy. I went to the tournament with three friends, just to watch the sport. True, I did care for you from the very start but I never thought that I would fall in love. Our natures are complete opposite from each other, I doubt that any one would believe that we would find love."