Living in Athens, Ohio, there was a boy that was born of misfortune. A life where he is tried like a tool for a game, like an experiment that needs more testing. Different from his family, he was treated like an outcast from everyone around him. Never to experience emotions to an understandable level. Everything he learned was from a book. Blaze Ryu lives a life of survival, one that he has lived with since he was born. But sometimes, one has to go through hell and further to learn to the true meaning of life and death. Even of the true meaning of love in the end.