Chapter 1: A New World

"Life is so boring," Renji thought.

Ryu was going through the motions like he normally would when he reached the end of the school day. He already knew everything that was currently being taught by spending his time on the computer and reading college level textbooks. The only reason he attended school was to interact with other kids his age, which he still couldn't find any enjoyment from due to his anti-social and cold personality. Kids didn't like to talk to him either since he was always apathetic and rarely showed emotion in front of others and was also viewed as a "know-it-all".

Ryu knew he was different from most kids due to the fact he could remember almost everything he's ever seen or read. His parents told him it was a photographic memory, but he just thought he could recall things better than most.

The reason he found life so boring was because his memory allowed everything to come easy to him. When he had tests in school, he would just read through a textbook and have everything that would be covered for the year memorized and ace the tests. If he had homework, he could finish it in less then 10 minutes due to already knowing the answers. It's because everything came so easy to him that he sought out something that could keep him entertained and present a challenge when he reached the age of 9.

Past

A local martial arts dojo had opened up in his town recently and he found himself absorbed in everything associated with the art of fighting from everything he read about it online. When he visited the dojo, he was greeted with the sight of people fighting each other. After he entered he chose to continue to observe the people fighting and due to his great memory and vision, he was able to follow the flow of the fights and memorize the movements being used.

He didn't talk to anyone their even after someone approached him and asked if he wanted anything, he just continued to observed for hours the different forms of martial arts being used. Once he was satisfied, he left and went back home, with the idea that he would practice and master different forms of fighting.

It was through the medium of martial arts that he finally found a passion for something and he spent almost all of his time exercising by lifting weights, doing push ups, sit ups, and pull ups after he discovered that he needed to build up his body in order to perfect the fighting styles he memorized. It was after only 5 years of practicing that he finally mastered and memorized the martial arts that he deemed the most interesting such as kung fu, taekwondo, muay thai, jiu jitsu, and Krav Maga. The reason he found these interesting and chose to devote his time to mastering these styles is that they were the most dangerous and deadliest fighting styles in the world.

He found a passion for fighting and decided that if he was going fight, it was going to be done with deadly fighting styles that would leave the opponent with no opportunity to retaliate. In his mind the best fighting styles where the most deadly ones.

When he was 14 and mastered these different forms of fighting, he found he was once again bored. He had an easy time mastering these due to his perfect memory and dedication for practicing, and was at a lose for what to do with his time now. During his time practicing he visited the dojo again and asked for spars against others. This is when he discovered that he made the right choice in practicing deadly fighting techniques, since almost everyone he battled against lost after a few moves. By winning against others in fights, he could feel excitement and when he struggled against an opponent he would feel the thrill of a challenge and fight harder allowing him to win and feel satisfied. After having defeated everyone in the dojo, including all the instructors, he wanted to search for something else to devote his time to, and discovered the world of manga and anime.

After reading and watching Hundreds of different anime and manga, he found his favorite one to be Hunter x Hunter. He fell in love with all the different ways the characters could fight one another and all the cool ways that Nen was being applied in the fights. He analyzed every character and their fighting styles as well as how they used there different Nen abilities in fights.

One of his favorite parts of this anime was the different organizations and characters present in the world, such as the Hunter Association, the Chimera Ants as a species, and the Phantom Troupe and all the different characters involved with them. If there was any world he could be transported to it would definitely be this one due to all the different abilities that could be used through Nen and Aura.

Present Day

After coming back home from school, he continued his normal schedule of exercising and watching anime, then went to sleep.

While sleeping he had a strange dream about the Hunter x Hunter world as well as a city filled with garbage which he knew he recognized but couldn't remember the name. Once he woke up the next day he could smell a horrible stench of trash and see a giant standing above him. When the giant reached forward he was confused until he was picked up and she started patting his back and making cooing noises that someone would make to a baby. That's when he realized that the person holding him wasn't a giant that was really big but that he was very small, and it finally clicked that he had most likely been reincarnated as a baby and if his dream was any indication as to his location then he was probably in a different world, the Hunter x Hunter World.