Taking Masaki by Force

"Sir, our Miss Masaki is already engaged!"

Ten Unohana turned his head. His face had already been close to Masaki Kurosaki's, and now he nearly...

"Ah!" Masaki Kurosaki hurriedly backed away.

We almost kissed.

The two of them had the same thought.

"Who are you?" Ten Unohana asked, looking at the maid.

"Katagiri."

Ten Unohana took a good look at the maid named Katagiri and nodded. Hmm, she was fairly pretty.

And so—

"I've decided. You're both mine, starting now." Ten Unohana's overbearing declaration left both women utterly stunned. Who told someone they belonged to him the first time they met, let alone said it to two women at once? And behind Ten Unohana stood five women, including Yoruichi and Retsu Unohana.

Masaki said blankly, "Um, sir?!" "Hmm?" Ten Unohana responded.

And then, nothing else happened.

With his absolutely overwhelming strength and Masaki Kurosaki offering no resistance, Ten Unohana succeeded in taking the beauty by force!!!! People all along the street stared in shock. Could this be the secret to that man's having so many beautiful women?? many men thought.

Later, someone promptly tried it, but the facts proved that some ways of pursuing women weren't for everyone. The man who tried it was said to have been left paralyzed on one side.

Leaving that aside for now, after Ten Unohana took Masaki Kurosaki away, someone went to the Ishida Family to report it. Ryūken Ishida was furious. Although he knew Masaki Kurosaki didn't like the engagement and didn't love him, he wouldn't allow someone else to lay a hand on her, much less take her by force.

So Ryūken Ishida reported it to Sōken Ishida, who promptly responded by leading a great number of his men to Ten Unohana's residence.

Sōken Ishida wasn't making a fuss over nothing. He knew there was a Soul Reaper captain behind the Uten Group, making it no easy opponent.

What Sōken Ishida didn't know, however, was that the Soul Reaper captain was at the Uten Group right now. Not only that, there was more than one Captain-level figure there. If he had known... Thus, Ishida and his people were bound for tragedy this time, though none of them knew it...

So the whole group continued on their way to Ten Unohana's residence in a great procession.

Meanwhile, Ten Unohana watched Masaki curiously looking around and was a little speechless. At least act like you've been abducted!! The maid Katagiri's reaction is the normal one, isn't it—

Just look:

"Let us go, now! We're saying this for your own good. You don't know about that world. Ordinary people..."

"All right, you're Quincy, aren't you? Honestly." To get the maid Katagiri to stop talking, Ten Unohana had no choice but to reveal that he wasn't an ordinary person either.

But before the maid Katagiri could react,

Masaki suddenly spotted Ten Unohana's Poppy Scythe and Blade of Slaughter. Her lips fell open in shock, and she pointed at the two weapons. Ten Unohana followed her reaction to his Zanpakuto and said with a smile, "Oh?! Looks like you recognize my weapons, Masaki!"

This time, Masaki was truly afraid. She stammered, "What? Those are your weapons?! I thought they belonged to a Hollow??"

Ten Unohana picked up the Poppy Scythe and the Blade of Slaughter. "Ah, the Hollow you mean had a demonic face, fangs and dragon horns, sharp wings on its back, and a long tail, right?"

Masaki nodded. "Its whole body was also surrounded by dense, ink-black Reiatsu."

"Oh, then that was me," Ten Unohana said casually. "So you knew about me too, Masaki!"

At that...

Masaki and the maid Katagiri both widened their eyes. "You're a Hollow??"

Ten Unohana corrected them. "No, I never said I was a Hollow, though I did look a lot like one back then."

"Not a Hollow?" Masaki had barely finished speaking...

When Ishida's group arrived.

"Surround the place, quickly!" Sōken Ishida's voice rang out from outside.

Ten Unohana smiled unconcernedly, grabbed both weapons, and ran outside.

"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh—" The instant Ten Unohana stepped outside, countless arrows of Reishi light rained down on him, but they quickly passed through his body and vanished...

"Hmph, have them back." Ten Unohana swept the Blade of Slaughter upward.

"Boom—" Compared with the Quincy's precision, Ten Unohana's counterattack wasn't very accurate, but it still killed several Quincy who couldn't dodge in time.

Just then, Masaki Kurosaki hurried outside as well.

"Don't!! Go away, all of you! Leave me alone!!" Masaki had meant to stop them, but the Ishida Family clearly misunderstood her words.

The Ishida Family's attacks grew even fiercer, but...

"Stop attacking!" After the second wave of attacks was reflected, Sōken Ishida finally got a clear look at the weapons in Ten Unohana's hands.

"Those are?!"

"Huh?! Looks like you know too? All I did was kill a few of your Quincy that time. Was this really necessary??" Ten Unohana didn't know that one of the people he had killed was a top combatant, so he thought the Quincy he had killed while taking an Asauchi to train his Resurrección weren't worth mentioning.

"What?! Was this really necessary?! Easy for you to say! Do you know that because you killed one of our top combatants, we started losing ground in our battle with the Soul Reapers, and that eventually led to our defeat?" Ryūken Ishida roared.

Ten Unohana swung the Blade of Slaughter. "You're still too green! Already losing your temper? But did I really kill one of your top combatants? I'm terribly sorry, but that said, your top combatant was so weak..."

"Well then..." Ten Unohana put a hand to his face. "Do you still want to fight?!"

"Roar—" Ten Unohana let out a bellow.

A Hollow mask quickly appeared.

"Don't!..." Masaki cried.

But Ten Unohana paid no attention to Masaki's cry.

After all, they hadn't surrendered, so in Ten Unohana's eyes, they were still enemies—and he would kill them without hesitation.

"Roar—" Ten Unohana bellowed and raised the Blade of Slaughter high—

"If you want to win my heart, stop!" Masaki's words brought Ten Unohana to a halt. He turned to look at her.

"Heh heh, I'll spare you for Masaki's sake!" The mask on Ten Unohana's face slowly dissolved.

Only then did Ryūken Ishida realize that his son had nearly died. Besides, that was the Menos Grande that had killed many Quincy. Continuing to fight would only mean a pointless, one-sided slaughter at Ten Unohana's hands.

So Sōken Ishida hurriedly slunk away, not even stopping to say a parting word, for fear that Ten Unohana would change his mind. After all, Ten Unohana was a Hollow, not something else, and Hollows were famous throughout the Soul Reaper world for their violent, bloodthirsty nature.

Once everyone from the Ishida Family had left, Ten Unohana turned to Masaki. "Did you mean what you said just now?"

Masaki Kurosaki nodded. "Although Ryūken Ishida and I don't have true love, you and I... have even less reason to speak of true love. But the Ishida Family raised me, and I owe them for that. If you kill anyone from the Ishida Family, you'll never win my heart."

Ten Unohana looked at Masaki Kurosaki and teased, "Are you teaching me how to pursue you, Masaki??"

"Hmph."

The maid Katagiri had gone tsundere, giving a cold snort to make her presence known. But when she thought of how the Ishida Family had treated her as though she didn't exist and abandoned her just now, she had nowhere to vent the hurt she felt...

"Huh?! Sad because they ignored you?" Ten Unohana asked the maid Katagiri with a grin.

Tears in her eyes, the maid Katagiri said, "What's it to you, you bastard?!"

Ten Unohana rolled his eyes. "Great, I'm a bastard again..."

With that, he embraced both women and, ignoring their struggles, forcibly carried them back into the house as they half resisted and half yielded.

Retsu Unohana asked calmly, "Taken care of?"

"Yeah, it's taken care of. It wasn't a big deal anyway!" Ten Unohana put the two women down as he spoke to Retsu Unohana.

Retsu Unohana had only asked about it as a matter of course. Then, after gathering her thoughts, she said, "Little Ten, my vacation is almost over. I have to go back to Soul Society. What about you??"

Ten Unohana said quietly, "So soon?! All right, then. I'll go to Soul Society too and prepare to get my Soul Reaper powers back."

"What, you're a Soul Reaper too?!" Masaki Kurosaki said, her eyes wide.

Ten Unohana turned to her. "I'm a Quincy too! Really, I'm not lying."

Ignoring Masaki Kurosaki and the maid Katagiri, who were utterly stunned, he said to Retsu Unohana, "Then I'll start making preparations for my trip to Soul Society."

"Mm!" Retsu Unohana nodded.

The remaining women understood why Ten Unohana was leaving, but another round of farewell kisses and playful scuffling was inevitable.

"Well, that's that. Bye-bye, beauties. We'll see each other again soon." Ten Unohana's carefree words brought tears to the women's eyes—except for Masaki and the maid Katagiri.

Soul Society, Rukongai.

A Senkaimon suddenly appeared, and Ten Unohana's voice came from within—

"I never expected you to open a Senkaimon here just for the seal, Mom."

Retsu Unohana's gentle voice followed. "I set up this Senkaimon to avoid trouble when it came time to undo the seal."

The Senkaimon slowly opened, and two figures stepped out. It was the Unohana mother and son, who had arrived in Soul Society...

"Mom, you should go back first! It's better if you don't get involved in this. As long as you stay out of it, no one will have anything to hold against you. Your position as captain is still very useful, so it's best not to give it up if you can help it," Ten Unohana said to Retsu Unohana.

Retsu Unohana nodded. "Then be careful, Little Ten!"

Ten Unohana nodded and left. Retsu Unohana watched his retreating figure until he was out of sight, then turned and departed.

Soul Society, Rukongai.

Ten Unohana walked along slowly when a figure suddenly appeared and blocked his path...

"Young Master Unohana, you cannot go to the seal," the figure said to Ten Unohana as soon as they came to a stop.

Ten Unohana narrowed his eyes. Did everyone already know what I was doing??

With that thought, Ten Unohana looked at the figure...

"Huh—"

Ten Unohana let out a long cry of surprise!!!!