My Name Is Ten Unohana

"Phew." Retsu Unohana let out a long breath and said to the Soul Candy, "Thank you!"

"Don't thank me," the Soul Candy said weakly. "I'm a medical Soul Candy made using you as a model. Come to think of it, that makes you my mother too. Besides, he's the child I delivered with my own hands after I became conscious, so he's like my own child. And on top of that, I'm an object Soul Society intended to destroy, so you don't need to thank me." As she spoke, she looked down at the child in her arms. What she saw terrified them both.

"Wh-what on earth is going on?" Half the body of the child in the Soul Candy's arms was already covered in a white substance resembling a Hollow's. Only then did the two of them notice that the child didn't seem to have cried once since birth.

Leaving the two of them to panic, let's return to the shut-in who had been absent for a while!

"Where am I?" The shut-in slowly came to and gazed blankly around the exceedingly comfortable and luxurious palace.

"Master is naturally in his own Zanpakuto's world."

The shut-in stared at the classical beauty standing before him, stunned for a moment.

"Wait, wait. Did you just call me master?"

"Mm, yes, Mas—"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa. Did you say Zanpakuto? This is the world of Soul Reapers?"

"This is..."

Rumble! "Damn it, has it spread up here?" the classical beauty said. "Master, forget everything else for now. A Hollow's energy has invaded you, so hurry and draw your Zanpakuto! Otherwise, both of us will disappear."

The shut-in froze for a moment. "Damn it, what the hell have I gotten myself into?"

Despite his words, his hands weren't slow in the slightest. He closed his eyes, found the red Reiraku using the method from the original story, and pulled it out.

"Got it!" the shut-in shouted, but immediately afterward—

"Wait, what's wrong with the Zanpakuto?"

"Waaah—" The shut-in was shocked. What's going on?

But the words he spoke came out as a baby's cries.

"Waaah." Hearing the child cry, the Soul Candy smiled. "There, all right. Hehe!"

As soon as she finished speaking, her body and mind relaxed. With a clatter, the Soul Candy inside the pierced body fell out in pieces.

Seeing the dead Gigai, the shut-in cried, No way! Am I that unlucky? I've seen a dead person!

But apart from him, probably no one could understand those words in a baby's cries.

Wait, wait. Why is it coming out as crying, and what's with this body? He held his hand up in front of himself. Whoa, I've turned into a child. Hang on, I was in a Zanpakuto's world just now, right? Does that mean I transmigrated? But aren't I a little too unlucky? I just transmigrated, and my mom's already dead?

Hearing the child cry, Retsu Unohana hurriedly picked him up. Huh? Mom's not dead? Hm? Is that Retsu Unohana?

Retsu Unohana held the child gently, but then—

"Hmm, this is... ah!" Retsu Unohana pulled out the cold object that had been pressed against her body ever since she picked up the child, but its sharp edge cut a long gash across her delicate finger.

"Is this... a Zanpakuto?" Retsu Unohana asked, looking at the exquisite, sharp blade in her hand, whose shape differed from that of other Zanpakuto.

The blade in Retsu Unohana's hand had an overall length of 105.1 cm; a blade length of 73.2 cm; a blade width of 3.2 cm; a blade thickness of 0.85 cm; and a handle length of 26.9 cm. It had a straight back and an angled tip.

The entire blade was as exquisite as a work of art, but its angled tip gave off a chilling air that made one's heart tremble, revealing it to be a weapon of slaughter.

"Hmm, as expected of my son, Retsu Unohana's son. He really is different, even his Zanpakuto is different from everyone else's."

Ten Unohana said with a little pride.

Retsu Unohana didn't know, however, that the blade she had praised was a weapon of slaughter that had struck fear throughout the world in China, especially during the Tang dynasty—the Tang sword.

Smiling, Retsu Unohana wrapped the Tang sword in cloth. Just as she was about to place it in the child's arms, her smile slowly froze on her face.

A transparent hole in the child's tiny palm made Retsu Unohana's heart sink to the depths—a Hollow Hole. In the world of Soul Reapers, it was a defining feature of a Hollow, even more representative than a Hollow's mask. Having a Hollow's mask didn't necessarily make one a Hollow, but having a Hollow's Hollow Hole certainly did.

With a heavy heart, Retsu Unohana placed the Zanpakuto that belonged exclusively to her child in his arms.

But then—

"Huh?!" Retsu Unohana stared at the child with the Zanpakuto against his body. The Hollow Hole in his hand had disappeared.

Puzzled, Retsu Unohana moved the Zanpakuto away from the child, and the Hollow Hole appeared again. She put it back, and it disappeared. She took it away, and it appeared. She repeated this several times.

"It looks like the Zanpakuto can't leave his body from now on. Otherwise, he'll have to wear gloves to hide the Hollow Hole in his hand. Sigh... my child, I'm sorry."

"Waaah—" Seeing Retsu Unohana's furrowed brows, a certain child cried out in disarray, but once again it came out as crying.

"That's right, a newborn needs rest, but the surroundings here... Never mind, let's go back to the World of the Living first!" She looked at the child in her arms and smiled gently. "I decided long ago. From now on, your name is Ten Unohana."

Then she looked at the mess around her, put away the Gigai and the shattered Soul Candy, and used Kidō to clean up the traces in the area.

Afterward, she coaxed Ten Unohana to sleep, opened a Garganta while shielding him, and hurried to the World of the Living, leaving behind only an enormous crater above the Forest of Menos.

In the World of the Living,

A Garganta opened in a comfortable room, and Retsu Unohana slowly stepped out of it with Ten Unohana in her arms. "We're finally here. Next, I need to take good care of the child, and see whether there's another way to deal with his Hollow Hole."

Having left the dangerous Hueco Mundo, Retsu Unohana finally breathed a sigh of relief. As she spoke, she took a little of Ten Unohana's Reiatsu, then brought out another Gigai and a Soul Candy, this one for taking care of the child.

After entrusting Ten Unohana to the Soul Candy, Retsu Unohana undid the seal on her Gentei Kaijo.

Meanwhile, in Soul Society,

"Captain-Commander, Captain Unohana's Reiatsu has finally reappeared, in the same place where it disappeared a few days ago," Chōjirō Sasakibe reported to Genryūsai.

Genryūsai pondered for a moment. "Is Captain Unohana injured?" "That's also what I wanted to report. Although she isn't injured, Captain Unohana is in a weakened state." After hearing this, Genryūsai said calmly, "Understood! That means Captain Unohana has dealt with her business, and she isn't injured. That's enough. You may go."

"Yes." After Chōjirō Sasakibe, the First Division lieutenant, left, Shigekuni Yamamoto-Genryūsai frowned. He knew Retsu Unohana's strength well; her combat power was on par with his own. Had even someone with such combat power been weakened? Then the enemy's strength... He could only hope that Retsu Unohana had dealt with the enemy completely.

But Genryūsai hadn't expected that Retsu Unohana had gone not to eliminate an enemy of Soul Society, but to give birth. Moreover, this child would be a great enemy of Soul Society in the future—mm, a great enemy of men in particular. But right now, the person who had brought joy and worry to these two boss-level figures of Soul Society was drinking milk under a Soul Candy's care.

This drove Ten Unohana to despair. Heaven was his witness! Although he was a shut-in, having to drink milk like a child still left Ten Unohana, a man who had lived two lives, in disarray.

But then again, this wet nurse Unohana found for me—though I don't know whether she's really my mom—is really great! Hmm... I can only say... big, so big. This is bliss! Although she's an artificial Soul Candy plus a Gigai, but, but, she really has plenty of milk! Ten Unohana thought excitedly.

Compared with Ten Unohana's leisure, his mother, Retsu Unohana, was much busier. Research, and more research. As the Fourth Division Captain, who specialized in treating Soul Society, Retsu Unohana could be said to rank first in Soul Society in the study of Reiatsu. After all, it concerned the lives of Soul Society's Soul Reapers and was no joking matter.

Thus, although Retsu Unohana didn't conduct research, when she did, she was quite adept at it.

"Hmm, just as I thought, Quincy, Soul Reaper, and Hollow Reiatsu are mixed together deep in Little Ten's soul. It's just that the Quincy Reiatsu is hidden very deeply, and only the Hollow and Soul Reaper Reiatsu are on the surface. Let's see if I can suppress the Hollow Reiatsu deep in his soul. That should get rid of Little Ten's Hollow Hole, right? But I need to hurry; my leave is almost over. I have to suppress Little Ten's Hollow Reiatsu deep in his soul before it ends."

Retsu Unohana pondered as she looked at the Reiatsu before her, which had already been separated into three parts.

Retsu Unohana had already found some clues, but things had turned tragic again for Ten Unohana.

Poor Ten Unohana had to endure one of the greatest hardships of his life again—learning a foreign language.

This was Japan, and the unfortunate Ten Unohana could understand only a handful of words like "onii-chan" and "yamete." He couldn't understand a single sentence, and even those few words had come courtesy of Japan's most famous AV and anime.

And so Ten Unohana, who in his previous life hadn't even known whether the English alphabet had twenty-four or twenty-six letters, had to begin the miserable task of learning another language.

Luckily, he still had time—mm, plenty of time. After all, Soul Society's Soul Reapers lived for hundreds or thousands of years, as long as one particular creature—a giant turtle.

No, wait, won't I become a Soul Reaper too? Wouldn't I be insulting myself? But apart from that thing, Ten Unohana really couldn't think of any creature that could live for a thousand years like a Soul Reaper.

But even if you gave me a thousand years, I still wouldn't want to learn a foreign language! Why couldn't you give me the ability to understand and speak one right away, like other transmigrators? If that's really not possible, making Chinese the main language of this world would work too! Ten Unohana thought angrily as he worked hard at learning the damnable Japanese language.

But hard work paid off—or rather, Ten Unohana put every ounce of strength he had into it, and after nearly a month of effort, he could finally understand Japanese.

But whenever Unohana thought about how he still couldn't write Japanese, he wanted to force everyone in the world of Soul Reapers to learn Chinese.

Meanwhile, over the course of that month, Retsu Unohana had finally managed to suppress the Hollow portion of Ten Unohana's Reiatsu deep within his soul. And after a month of working hard to learn Japanese, Ten Unohana finally knew and could say his own name.

"My name is... Ten Unohana."