"Well then, shall we proceed ?" Haruto asked coldly, regarding the wide eyed Head Captain with an impassive look.
Yamamoto couldn't believe his eyes. A mere human being able to stand up to his level 80 Kido without a scratch on his body? The mere consideration of this happening was leaving him slack jawed. No one he had ever fought with had the power to even withstand the heat of Ryujin Jakka's flames, yet this boy had swatted it away with his bare hands as if it was a mere bug.
He had fought and defeated various formidable foes during his long life, all considered the best of the best, but all there combined power was nothing but a mere drop compare to the ocean of power the red haired boy possessed.
Shunsui, Jushiro and Nanao had their eyes bugged out of their eye socket and their jaws hanging wide open in shock.
"W-w-what! T-t-his is not possible" Nanao gaped
"It can't be" Jushiro whispered in shock and incredulity.
"Well, this is certainly… okay, this is unbelievable," the lazy Captain uttered in a rare moment of shock.
"Like I said before, nothing your Head Captain or anyone in the Soul Society do will be able to put a scratch on him, let alone hurt him. Just pray that he doesn't kill your teacher." Naruko stated bluntly, not at all bothered by the fact that Haruto would probably kill the old man.
Quite the contrary in fact, she would kill him if he got on her nerves too much!
"From my point of view, Haruto seems to have a deep seated anger for the old man, the real question is why? He has never met the old man before now, so why would he have any reason to want to fight him?" Shunsui asked lazily, though the question was of serious nature.
Naruko sighed in resignation "Haruto hates arrogance and meaningless conflict with every fiber of his being, I don't need to tell you how much arrogant your Head Captain is, do I? He has this knee jerk reaction to arrogant and prideful individuals regardless of their station and power."
"Yeah, our Captain really is a little on the arrogant side," he said with a sweatdrop. "I sure hope Haruto doesn't kill the old man."
"This cannot be, "The old Captain whispered in shock.
"I do not have time to witness your slack jawed expression old man, I gave you an opportunity to kill me and you wasted it, now prepare yourself," Haruto announced coldly and untangled his hands from behind his back.
The old man grunted in agony and shock when a bone-shattering punch planted itself in his stomach and sent him flying away like a ragdoll. Before he could plummet to the earth, another similar punch connected with his torso and embedded him deep in the earth, a huge crater forming around the point of impact.
Yamamoto spat out blood and spittle in pain, his eyes wide like plates as he witnessed the cold eyes of the boy drilling him into the ground.
"N-no way!" the sickly Captain gasped in shock.
"What incredible strength!"
Naruko smirked at the wide eyed expressions of the three Shinigamis. If they ever saw Haruto's true strength, they would die of shock. An ordinary Ninja could make a crater with a single punch if he had control over his/her Chakra, but Haruto was essentially Chakra itself.
A single fully powered punch from him had the power to split the planet in half!
Haruto was hovering above the crater with his hands behind his back once again, a cold and impassive look on his face as he eyed the motionless form of the old man. He really needed to restrain himself more if two punches were enough to render the old man motionless, though he was without a doubt sure of the fact that it would take more than two punches to take down the stubborn old man.
"Get up."
The old Head Captain struggled to get up, all bones in his body feeling as if they had been through a grinding machine, blood dripping down his bald head and chest, his black kimono in tatters. A mere twitch ignited more pain than he had ever felt.
He would have to be careful with this one if two punches were enough to give him this much damage.
"D-don't get cocky boy, it will take more than that to take me down," The old man spat out in disgust and climbed up the crater with his feet trembling. "I will not be taken down by the likes of you!"
The old man jumped up at the hovering redhead with a booming roar and attempted to impale him by his blazing sword. This insulting battle had gone on long enough.
Haruto untangled one of his hands from behind his back and blocked his sword with the tip of his finger and gazed at the shocked Captain impassively. "That's it?"
"Far from it!" The old man yelled and pointed the tip of his sword as it released an enormous stream of scorching flames at Haruto, completely covering him and the sky above in flames.
A few seconds later, the smoke cleared to reveal an unharmed Haruto with his hands behind back.
"Utterly disappointing," he stated.
The old man readied himself for an attack when the impassive boy raised his clawed hand towards him. Imagine his shock when an invisible force slammed into him like a speeding meteor and sent him fly out of the abandoned district and into the surrounding forest.
What kind of technique is that? He didn't even move from his spot. The old man thought in pain as he collided with a tree, destroying it from the force of impact and skidded to a halt in the middle of the forest.
"W-what was that?" Nanao asked in shock.
"That is a technique used only by me and Haruto, capable of reducing an entire village to ruble. What you witnessed now is nothing but a single percent of the technique's destructive potential." Naruko explained, grimly recalling the attack made by Pain on the Hidden Leave Village.
"Speaking from experience?" Shunsui asked pointedly when he saw the faraway look on her face.
Naruko ignored his question, or rather didn't deem it worthy of an answer, considering it was related to her past.
"Let's follow them, shall we." The crystal throne and sofa shot towards the forest and came to a stop above the place where the old man was lying among a heap of destroyed trees and boulders.
"That's gotta hurt."
The lazy Captain winced when he saw many tree splinters embedded in the old man's body. Looking around, he saw the ever impassive Haruto hovering above the old Head Captain. What surprised him was that Haruto was surrounded by the stealth force and the second Captain of the Gotei 13, Soifon.
It seems Yoruichi was present as well; no doubt she had been fighting Soifon before Haruto's arrival.