Hisoki opens his eyes and finds himself in the darkness.
Where am I!? What fate brought me here? I never knew the outside world could be so dangerous!
He remembered he was being eaten by the Ninja's wife. Is this the afterlife?
He saw a light and heard a voice. "Keep pushing! Your baby will be here soon!"
Hisoki crawled toward the light. He did not wish to stay in the darkness forever, so he followed the light. The light got bigger when he crawled more.
"I can see the head! Keep pushing!"
He crawled and crawled until he finally reached the light...
"Waaaah!!" Cried Hisoki, who is now a human baby.
"Congratulations! It's a boy!" said the cheerful midwife holding Hisoki.
The midwife bathed him and swaddled him in a blue blanket. She put him into the arms of the Ninja's wife. The ninja dashed into the room to see his wife smiling and cradling her newborn son. The ninja cried big tears of joy when he saw his newborn son.
I must have turned into a human. What is going to happen to me now?
The wife handed her newborn baby to her husband. The ninja lifted his son up in the air and said.
"From now on, our son's name will be….
…. Yaketsuku the third!"
WHAT!!??
Hisoki angrily shook his head and shouted.
"No! I already had a name! It's Hisoki!"
The baby spoke causing everyone's jaws to drop and eyes to widen like plates. Hisoki is confused, and he said.
"What with those faces? Have you ever seen a tanuki turn into a baby and start talking before?"
Hisoki jumped off his human father's arms and landed on the floor, standing on his two feet. He threw off the blanket and wrapped the blanket around his waist. He turned around to his human parents, midwife and nurses and said.
"I know it sounds strange to you and I have a lot of things to explain to you, but first I need some proper clothes and some fresh food to eat!"
After they gave him nice clothes to wear and a bowl of fruit to eat, they sat near the fireplace and the ninja (his name is Yaketsuku the second) poured some tea. Hisoki told his story to everyone about how he run away from his tanuki family to see the outside world, how he tries to escape from the house of the old lady and her son, how he ends up in Yaketsuku's bag and how he is transformed into mochi and get eaten by Yaketsuku's wife.
After the story, Yaketsuku's wife (her name is Maho) hugs her son with tears out of guilt.
"I am very sorry for mistaking you for mochi and eating you! From now on, I promise you a lot of love by feeding you, cleaning you and giving you some toys to play with!"
Yaketsuku stand up and said,
"God must have heard our prayers and chose you as our son. From now on, my wife and I shall be your human parents!"