Naruko flew outside and saw the green haired woman laying on the ground, groaning in pain as she attempted to stand up after being blasted by her technique. She would finish this quickly so that she could watch Haruto beat the crap out of the male Bounts.
While fighting her battle was fun and all, watching Haruto fight was something else. It just gave her that odd tingling sensation whenever he would use a strong technique with a cold and calm look on his face. Nothing… excited her more than Haruto's merciless battle prowess! Cold and demonic eyes flaring with power! Stone-like muscles rippling! Long blond hair fluttering in ferocious wind!
Powerful techniques being thrown around like nothing! What was there not to love!?
"D-damn you! What the hell was that?" Yoshi stuttered out in pain, wondering how she even got here in the first place. One second she was inside the mansion, and the next she was laying on the floor, bleeding from her fingers and forehead.
"That was something you would come to enjoy in our fight!" Naruko grinned when the woman scowled at her curt and cheeky answer.
Honestly, Haruto was rubbing off on her in more ways than one!
"Keep it up lady, you won't be talking so high and mighty once I wrap my hand around your neck and squeeze the life out of you!" She growled in anger when Naruko didn't even look at her, too busy cleaning her long nails.
"Hmm, did you say something?"
"Why you…"
Her response was cut short when an inhumanly strong and devastating punch connected with her torso and sent her flying out of the mansion yard and into the surrounding forest. She collided with a tree in the middle of the forest, leaving behind a trail of destroyed trees as she slumped to the ground in pain, spitting out an alarming amount of blood out of her mouth.
She was sure her ribs were broken as well as her right arm, since she had collided with the tree on her right side.
What kind of punch was that!?
She struggled to stand, leaning on the tree for support as she stood up with wobbling feet, only to be embedded in the ground by another similarly monstrous punch. The ground around the green haired woman caved in, breaking and blasting away from the sheer force of the punch.
Well, I guess this is it, never thought I would meet a woman so strong! Yoshi mused tiredly, laying in the large crater as she eyed the calm busty woman approach her. She resigned to her fate, knowing that even if she wanted to, she couldn't fight since she couldn't even move her finger let alone her entire body.
Naruko reached her bleeding opponent in a relaxed stride, observing the woman lay there helpless and hopeless. The entire reason why she had taken to fighting the woman was because Haruto couldn't bring himself to raise his hand against a woman. She would have been content to let him fight all of them, but she knew he would let the woman live despite knowing that she would cause a problem if let alive.
He may be a Primordial being now, but he still retained the kind heart and warm personality of his human self.
Seeing the dull eyes, hopeless expression on her face and the blood pooling underneath her lying form, Naruko truly realized why Haruto always let women live. The dull expression the green haired woman was sporting now would be hard to resist even by the most cold hearted person.
"I will follow my husband's example and offer you a chance to redeem yourself should you surrender." She offered despite knowing her answer. The woman was too proud to accept anyone's help.
"Go to hell! I don't need your pity!" she spat out in disgust, prompting Naruko to sigh in resignation.
Well, at least she tried.
"Say your goodbyes," she said and raised her hand, a bone protruded from her open palm and struck the wide eyed woman in the torso, instantly turning her into grey ash, just as the mansion exploded in a spectacular display of red light. Naruko left the ash remains of the woman in the forest floor and walked away to witness her husband's fight.
"D-damn him. He destroyed my mansion!" Kariya scowled, causing the others to look at him in shock and disgust. That's what he was worried about!?
The smoke cleared to reveal a heavily destroyed mansion still burning from the destructive power of the blast, with an intimidatingly tall Haruto standing in the middle of the flames. The red eyes were even more demonic than before, his tall and muscular height even more imposing and commanding as his long blond hair danced and waved in the wind.
If anything, he looked more like a mystical demon of destruction rather than a human.
"Ugaki! Sawatari! Ichinose! Koga! Kill this insolent man at all cost! Make it as painful as possible!" the silver haired Bount declared in anger, not even sad that a member of his clan had just died.
"Yes sir!"
The three Bounts and one Shinigami surrounded the approaching Haruto as he walked out of the flaming and destroyed mansion.
"Zeige Dich! Dalk!" Koga produced a tennis ball sized black orb with a strange design on it and let it fall down to the humble earth below. The orb suddenly split into many smaller orbs, the smaller orbs slowly coming together and producing some sort of strange feminine spider-like creature.
"Zeige Dich! Gessel." Ugaki produced a card with the same design engraved on Koga's orb, a vast number of small one eyed creatures with large mouths and some sort of strange protrusions coming from their heads, appeared.
"Zeige Dich! Baura." a strange wooden chair under the old man appeared as he sat on it like a king.
Haruto sighed in irritation. He had been trying to prove them wrong regarding their beliefs, but it seems they were not quite ready to accept defeat and change their ways.
Well, there was no other choice but to kill them.
"Let us end this pointless violence and surrender. I will ensure your safety from the Soul Society." Haruto offered kindly, not keen on causing more violence than necessary. The other seems to take his words as insults to their useless pride and honor, only the one named Koga seemed to be actually thinking it through.
"This will end as soon as we kill you and absorb your soul!" Sawatari declared in his old and gruff voice, prompting Haruto to let out a resigned sigh.
"Very well then, come."
"Get him Gessel!"
Haruto raised an eyebrow when the strange creatures opened their single eyes and released a yellow light over a few still standing pillars of the mansion. Feeling a familiar distortion in the ground behind him, Haruto raised his hand to block a sword from a disembodied hand without even looking behind.
The blocked sword held by a disembodied hand vanished just as he sidestepped an attack from a large fish with its mouth open. The large whale-like fish with its master atop its head continued its flight path and disappeared into the concrete floor of the destroyed mansion without much hassle.
From the looks of it, the inside of the fish's mouth was a separate dimension.
Haruto turned around and blocked a barrage of black orbs being fired from the spider creature's hand, causing the Doll to scowl in anger and dash at him with her hands turning into swords. He expertly dodged and blocked her strikes, angering her even more as her attacks became more desperate.
Having had enough of her desperate and frantic attacks, Haruto calmly flicked her in the forehead and sent her flying out of the mansion's yard and into the forest like a bug.
Ichinose watched the battle with calculative eyes, knowing that if all those Dolls attacks didn't work on the calm blond, then it was time to unleash something that will. He reached for his Zanpakuto and pulled it from its sheath "Ugaki, Mabashi, Koga, all of you stay back! I'll take care of this!"
They nodded and recalled their Dolls, knowing what was about to happen when the sword in the former Shinigami's hand suddenly lit up in a multitude of colors. "Flash and Burst, Saigyoku Nijigasumi!"
A multitude of twinkling lights appeared all around the calm blond, enveloping the whole area in a blinding white as it enclosed Haruto, creating a massive sphere of light.
Haruto looked at the sphere of light with clear amusement written on his face. Did they actually think this would hold him? How naïve!
"Anyone caught within the light sphere will be crushed as soon as the sphere starts getting smaller. You may be strong but you can't escape this technique." he boasted, already assured of his victory. As soon he turned around to receive praise for taking care of the nuisance, the whole landscape as well as the surrounding forest lit up in a truly brilliant dark red energy.
The Bounts took cover just as the sphere of light exploded violently, blasting the ground and the forest to nothing but black ash. The smoke slowly subsided to reveal a massive crater where the ground of the mansion once stood, devoid of any life or color.
Haruto was floating in the middle of the crater with his eyes closed, causing the Bounts as well as the Shinigami to back away in fear when the blond opened his eyes to reveal some sort of strange red ripple pattern eyes with nine comas in each eye, swirling hypnotically.
The eyes pulsed with power; it reeked of death and despair, glowing in the darkness of the night as Haruto ascended to the sky in all his glory. The mere sight of those red and dark eyes slowly moving over had them paralyzed in fear, even Kariya who believed himself to be unstoppable.
"I do not have time to play games with you, be gone!" the Bounts plus the Shinigami prepared to defend themselves when the blond suddenly one finger. "Inferno Style: Blazing Thunder Dragon."
If there ever was something as utter hopelessness and despair, then it was right in front of them. The clear night sky filled with twinkling stars slowly darkened by a shroud of dark clouds occasionally flashing with booming and fright-inducing lightning. What was even more terrifying was that the lightning was actually surrounded by dark red fire!
"W-what's happening?!" Ugaki stuttered in fright.
"T-this is not possible!" the old Bount exclaimed in shock, not believing his eyes. A mere human able to control the weather to his whim!? Was that even remotely possible!
"W-what the hell is this guy?!" Maki asked in a low whisper and dropped to his knees.
Kariya and Koga were too busy gaping at the sight to say anything.
"Come forth, Despair!"
The dark clouds unpredictably sparkled a dark red and crimson fire-like rain started pouring down like a flood, the lightning flashed even harder. That's when they witnessed it. A humongous dragon's head made of dark red lightning and fire emerged from the clouds and nudged the blond like a loyal pet.
A few seconds later, the whole dragon emerged from the safety of the dark clouds, scaring the Bounts to no end. The Dragon was humongous, its head alone was almost the size of the destroyed mansion, its red eyes devoid of any life and the way it roared was enough to make the Bounts fall down to their knees in hopelessness.
The sight of the tall blond floating in the sky in front of the dark clouds, his eyes pulsating with supremacy, his long blond hair swaying in the ferocious wind, his black staff jingling, a colossal dragon of fire and lightning encircling him as if a loyal pet, made the Bounts believe that they were truly in the presence of a being beyond their comprehension.
A being of devastation and dominance!
Kariya chuckled mirthlessly and eyed his soon to be executioner.
So this is how it all ends? All my hard work, all my suffering, all my pain and all my schemes ended as soon as the first phase was complete?
The last thing any of them ever saw was the slow flicker of the blond's finger and the loud roar of the dragon charging towards them to fulfill its master's command.
"So they are dead?" Yoruichi asked in shock, slowly recovering from the story of the blond completely destroying the whole forest along with the Bounts. It seems the blond had erected a barrier before their battle to ensure no one got hurt. That would explain why they hadn't seen the dragon Haruto had described, considering a dragon that large would have been seen even from outside the city.
"If you consider them turning into nothing but ash as dead, then I guess they are," Haruto replied sarcastically while Naruko grinned.
They were sitting in the living room in the Uzumaki Mansion after their battle with the Bounts. They had just escorted Yoshino outside to her new life. As a request, he had taken her Bount powers from her, without turning her into dust. Now she was a normal human being, able to live her life peacefully and finally settle down with someone.
Another thing was that he had saved Koga from being destroyed just before the dragon struck the ground, seeing as he was the only one with the morals among the Bounts beside Yoshino. Koga had also requested to have his powers removed from him and to have him turn into a normal human so that he could live without the burden of his past weighing down on his shoulders.
If his senses were not wrong, then he had a feeling Yoshino and Koga would settle down together since they already had a history.
He had dismissed their constant "thank you" since he had promised them he would do anything in his power to keep them safe. As a token of his trust, he had remade the destroyed mansion along with the forest back to what it was, so that they could live in it peacefully.
"I'll never get used to the idea of you two being unstoppable." she commented warily while they grinned.
"Anyway, Kitty, what are you doing here? Shouldn't you be in Bucket's shop by now since it's almost 1 am?" Haruto asked curiously.
"Nah, why would I want to stay in that dingy place when I can live in this luxury mansion," she replied cheekily, causing Haruto to let out a soft chuckle.
"I guess. Well then, make yourself at home. You can take one of the guest rooms or the rooms upstairs."
With that said, the two blond walked upstairs to finally get some rest. But if the heated look on Naruko's face was any indication, Haruto knew there wouldn't be much rest involved!