Kaze grumbled to himself as he walked in his cloak during the heat of the day. Being suppressed was such a pain.. but he chose to wear the thing so he could move around town without alerting everything in the vicinity to his location. Most people ignored him because he looked like a foreign traveler at the moment and they didn't want to deal with strangers. This worked in his favor for now since he was trying to be somewhat discreet.

However he eventually reached his goal, roughly in the middle of the city, and began enacting his little "Stage play" which detailed the very destructive way he was about to go about destroying the city.

First and foremost, despite it being weaker than most captain-class fighters, he used Kidou to start things off. Unleashing the full brunt of Hadou 88 to the north which caused a massive beam of death to streak it's way in that direction. Exploding and killing dozens if not hundreds of people immediately.

He then summoned his chair of shadows and took off his cloak of reiatsu suppression, folding it and stuffing it in an orifice of his shadow chair, before sitting down in said chair and waiting with his head propped on his hand. Now not only was there major damage to the northern part of New York City, but it was also quite clear Kaze, near the middle of the city, was responsible.

So all he had to do was wait. Waiting however was boring, so he conjured a few more kidou with his free hand and fired off hadou 4's and hadou 31's at random in the directions of east and west destroying more buildings and endangering even more lives. Sure he wasn't doing much at the moment, compared to what he could be doing.. but he was told to do what he does best and what he did best was cause chaos.

Eventually he decided he would go ahead and actually wait a few dozen kidou later. The scenery around him looking perfectly normal since he didn't attack his immediate surroundings while in the background you could hear screaming and fires and suffering in the city around him.

Kaze didn't mess around.

It was a fairly usual day in the city of New York, which made Natasha uneasy. There were no problems and she hadn't seen any hollows in the area recently, so she was worried that they may come all at once unexpectedly. Then again, there was no point worrying about it until it happened, so she found herself seated at a coffee shop. Considering the day was hot, Natasha held a small, mocha iced coffee in her hand as she scanned the crowds of people passing by. It was nice to sit peacefully for once and enjoy the bustling of the city. She watched people move about their days and they looked content.

However, all of that would change as Natasha would watch a flash of light and then a large beam would barrel its way through the city to the right of her location. Her eyes would widen and her mouth would drop as buildings upon buildings would collapse causing a large gust of wind and debris to cover the streets. Natasha would stand from her seat allowing her cup of coffee to collide with the concrete below her feet splashing the liquid across the ground. What was that? Natasha had never seen anything like that before. Who was that? Green eyes would turn in the direction the blast had come from and there she would follow the source.

Natasha moved with haste through the crowds of people that were panicked and screaming for their lives. Buildings continued to crumble around her and lives continued to be lost. She couldn't waste time. She would find whoever was doing this and she would make them pay. These people did nothing wrong. This is what she was here for. She wouldn't let them down and she would save whoever was left. How did she not notice before though? She didn't sense anything. She hadn't noticed such a strong presense. Just who was this person?

Natasha would finally reach the middle of the city finding herself face to face with a man sitting on a thrown of darkness. His expressionless face left her feeling a bubbling anger deep inside. "Who are you? Why are you here? These people are innocent, yet you're here committing mass murder and destroying their home," Natasha would speak loudly and sternly expecting information. What did this city have that this man could want? Or was he just some psycho that caused havoc for fun?

Kaze's waiting bore fruit as a woman came running towards him instead of running away like the rest of the rabble. However when bombarded with questions he simply looked bored, "My name is unimportant.. what is important is that by killing them I have brought you to me without needing to search the city for you. Now die." he said before pointing a finger at her and firing off a modified hadou called Raging Light Fang which creates a circle of energy before firing multiple blasts of green light from its center in a cage-like formation. The power of the kidou was around the 60th level and was either going to kill the women outright or do nothing to her at all.

This was Kaze's test. How would humanity endure if people like him were to just up and try to rule it all of a sudden? Fights broke out after Kaze's initial assault on the city all over the place as beings called "Sinners" rose from hell to defile the entire area with their evil powers. Upon seeing the woman wasn't dead yet Kaze would lift his head from his hand and actually look partially invested in fighting Natasha, "I guess you aren't as weak as the rest of the rabble.. Good then.. we shall see if you become worthy of even learning my name!" and he released the full brunt of his destructive reiatsu as it oozed from his body in waves.

Kaze seemed prepared for battle at this point, but didn't get off of his little throne chair thing. Wonder what he had planned then?

Of course, he was just as he looked and he refused to answer any of her questions. However, she would catch the fact that he stated he was looking for her, but did he truly mean her specifically? Or was he looking for someone to just fight in general? If that was the case, why was he trying to kill her? She had never met this man before in her life, yet here he was threatening her and blasting her with kidou. So, was he a shinigami then? What did a shinigami want with her? Why was he destroying this city? Weren't they supposed to protect and balance? None of this made any sense.

Natasha would watch as the blasts came for her as she swiftly and easily dodged out of the way of each one. At this point, Natasha would sense the many other power spikes that were popping up around the city, but they were different. She hadn't felt anything like this before. What was happening and what were they? The moment Natasha stopped moving a canon would drop from the sky next to her and immediately release 3 blasts the strength of a normal cero at the thrown he was sitting on. "Well, I suppose I'll just have to force your name out of you. I'd like to know who it is I'm going to kill," Natasha would exclaim loudly as she stood glaring at him.

"Hmph.. cannons?" Kaze muttered to himself as he created a wedge of shadows between himself and the incoming cero-like beam to split it to his left and right rather than directly at him. He pulled down his vizard mask, summoning it into existence with a simple swipe of his hand, before firing two cero of his own to counter the other two beams the cannon spit out at him. Once he had his vizard mask vanished. No point in spending time on the mask more than need be and he had only needed it for the couple of seconds he had used it.

'You didn't tell me you wanted to help destroy the city more." He mused out loud to mock her as he hiked a thumb past him to the cero beam he split in the first place. Which had left more devastation in it's two split paths of trajectory upon the citizens and their precious city, "But I doubt it was intentional." He commented mockingly before thinking of the next few things he would do.

He pulled his zanpaktou out from it's sheath on his back and it's red hue gleamed in the sunlight. He then swung it, without moving from his chair, which unhinged and launched two dagger looking objects towards the girl's position. Both daggers were aimed at her shoulders.  While waiting to see what she did about them he'd simply stay in his throne chair and watch her. Eyes fixated on her like a hawk eyeballing it's prey.

As soon as she moved to deal with the daggers he'd attack her again from his chair. This time firing a Hadou 4 Byakurai at her causing a lightning bolt to ignite from a finger tip and streak it's way across the battlefield towards her. So far he was still screwing around. She had some power but hadn't yet showed him anything that he couldn't handle yet.. though she was fast enough to dodge his previous cage beam Kidou so perhaps she'd be of sport yet and he simply needed to draw it out of her.

Perhaps he needed to cause more destruction and death so she'd go full out then.

That thought led to what Kaze considered a waste of energy, but he did it anyways, he charged up a kidou in the form of Hadou 91 Senjū Kōten Taihō. Releasing it to the south of the city, the only part of the city he hadn't attacked yet, resulting in an overly large and terrifyingly powerful explosion. Killing thousands of people at the minimum.

"Stop me from killing girl or you'll find your the only one left before our fight is done!"

Natasha would watch as the canon blast was split in two destroying the environment behind her target. As much as she hated to admit it, her power was just as destructive as his was, if not used properly. She felt that she had to hold back. She didn't want to harm the people. She didn't want to cause anymore damage. However, she would watch as two blasts intercepted her last two leaving her confused about what had happened, until she saw the mask disappear from his face. A mask? So, he wasn't a shinigami, but what was he? She had never interacted with anyone like him before. She had never seen such a power before on a shinigami.

Of course, he would comment on her power and how she was helping him destory things, however she knew she wasn't the bad guy. So, she would stare at him with a blank face not allowing his mocking nature to push a button. Then, she watch as he removed his Zanpakuto from its sheath. She knew that he was about to start doing something, but her body didn't move from its usual standing position. She would watch as he would swing his sword allowing two projectile objects to fly towards her. Clearly, she would dodge them by simply moving out of the way only to be met by another kidou barreling towards her. She would then move out of the way of the kidou leaving her to simply play the dodging game. It was unproductive and it was slightly annoying her, except she didn't want to destroy the city anymore than she had.

That's when he would do another unspeakable act. A large kidou would blast its way from his very hand destroying the only untouched buildings and lives left. Natasha would stare with wide eyes as her breathing stopped for a moment. She couldn't believe it. He just leisurely killed all of those people to get her attention, and to prove that he was willing to do it if he didn't get a good fight from her? Well, Natasha would immediately oblige as she would release her full extent of spiritual power. Her face would now show the raw anger and emotion she was feeling. The pressure would crash down on the area around the two as would 4 more canons and a balista from various locations across the battlefield. The canons would make a semicircle shape around his thrown in front of him. Immediately, he would be blasted with 5 ceros, 5 bala, and a spear the strength of a cero. This would be followed up by Natasha using blur to position herself behind the blasts. If she were to make it all the way to him follow the blasts, Natasha would attempt to strike him in the head. Considering her monsterous strength, she expected him to be launched across the battlefield, if that was the case she would simply use blur to follow his body.

His throne was destroyed as the girl seemed to lose her composure and go for the kill, interesting.. at full power she was actually as strong as Kaze was. He hadn't expected that. The poor display he had been shown up until that point was quickly replaced with devastating consequences, but Kaze was no slouch, he had shunpo'd when he detected the mass of energy coming for him and had gone into the air where he now hovered like a ghost. Only for her to blur infront of him a moment later and try to punch him in his face.

He blocked it with his Zanpaktou naturally, trying his best to sever her arm for daring to attack him with it, but her strength sent him hurling backwards through some buildings before he stopped, which reminded him of his daughter.. which pissed him off. However he quickly calmed and assessed the situation at hand before deciding what to do next. First thing.. she at least earned the right to know his name and title.

"I am Kaze the Blackwind of the Lisola Clan. Know this name for it will one day be the death of you all." He declared while getting up before pulling his mask down and running the same hand down the length of his Zanpaktou, calling out it's name as he entered Bankai, "Roar in defiance at reality, Arcannus Nilentona Noesis!" and re-summoned his throne before proceeding to sit down in it. It was made of pure shadow and as such regenerated from being destroyed. Allowing him to always have a place to sit.

He was old after all.. standing when it wasn't needed was a chore.

However as soon as he sat down a humongous creature of darkness and shadow in the form of a dragon appeared to his left, it's head barely reaching Kaze's throne's position since he was still in the sky himself. This creature took a deep breath and fired a dark cero at the girl before roaring and charging off towards her with reckless abandon wherein it would attempt to swipe at her with it's claws.

He didn't expect the creature to do much, but the girl had followed him and he needed to slow her down. This would do that at the least.

He himself merely chilled with his zanpaktou in his hand. Waiting as he created five living shadow constructs whom all looked humanoid with swords matching Kaze's zanpaktou in appearance. Then he created another five..and another five.. until he had twenty of the lesser creatures marching after the girl behind the giant dragon. His Army of the Damned technique at work. Once again like with the dragon he didn't expect much from them, but they were amusing and still dangerous if they managed to stab her or cut her with their swords.

For now he watched, and learned. Should this woman manage to beat him he would be more than ready for round two in the future.. especially since he wouldn't have tanked half of his reiryoku on destroying the City and would have instead focused it on her. He miscalculated a bit.. but perhaps he could salvage this anyways.

Her punch had landed, but not where she wanted it to. Her fist would connect with the man's zanpakuto leaving Natasha with a smirk across her lips. Her arm being created from a spiritually enhanced metal wouldn't be phased by the likes of a zanpakuto and he would soon understand that as green eyes watched his body soar through the surrounding buildings. Natasha would catch herself landing with feet on the ground before she would lock eyes on his standing being. The moment she had been waiting for had arrived, where he decided to call out his name to her. Kaze Lisola. "Alright," she would speak aloud to herself as her grin would form back on her face. This was getting interesting.

From thin air, a mask would be placed on this man's face again leaving Natasha puzzled again. What sort of power was he bound to show her now? Within a moments notice, his words would release a large spike of power that Natasha could only assume was the power of a Bankai. However, he hadn't done anything after that. His throne would reappear and he would sit back down in it. Of course, this annoyed Natasha as she blatantly glared at Kaze with her fists balled in anger. What did he think he was doing? She just knocked him through some buildings and he had the nerve to sit back down? That's when something else would emerge beside him causing Natasha to groan. A summon? He really thought a summoned creature could defeat her in his stead?

Natasha would dodge the large cero blast while simultaneously tucking into a roll, except she would shove her arm through the ground only to pop back up holding a rather large hammer. As the creature would swipe at her, Natasha would leap off the ground into the air swinging the hammer with all the force she had at the dragon's head. She would hope to take it out of play so that she could get close to Kaze again. However, she was now realizing that she would have to deal with his army of ground troops that he had created, but that was child's play in Natasha's eyes. This had also left her with time to reposition her canons around Kaze and his footsoldiers once more. With her canons facing the mass and Kaze, they would fire another 5 ceros worth of blasts, 5 balas worth of blasts, and another cero level spear.

In all of the chaos of hitting the dragon and canon fire, Natasha would make another break for Kaze using her blur technique as her hammer would disappate from her grip. If allowed the chance to get in close again, Natasha would attempt to strike at Kaze's torso area around the ribs. Perhaps, if she could break something, he'd be less prone to moving away from her and would possibly slow down. She could only hope her plan worked.

She easily destroyed his summon. This made him frown as that made the attempt a total waste of energy rather than an amusement. Kaze was quickly running out of energy due to having destroyed a good portion of the city and he hadn't expected the girl to be on par with him. Fighting her normally would be all but impossible at this point.. He needed to re-work his stratagem.

This caused him to sigh as he stood up from his chair and put a hand on his mask before being engulfed in an orb of darkness as the cero beams collided with it and .caused him a moderate mount of damage despite the face his reiatsu protected him from a good portion of it as he released into his . His spiritual energy becoming massive and even more destructive than normal as the orb disappeared around Kaze leaving leaving him looking like a six horned demon of a hollow. He looked very thin but his reiatsu was off the charts and now he had zombified-looking wings sprouting from his back.

Getting into melee around him now, while he was at his full power, would allow him to damage her just with his energy alone. Something she'd find out a moment later as he diverted her punch to his torso with just his reiatsu flexing outwards in wave. If she touched his energy at all, if she came anywhere near it, it would engulf her fist and burn her. Eating away at her flesh and clothing slowly as long as she remained in contact with his energy aura that he was now enveloped in.

As his energy deflected his opponents fist to the side he breathed out a mist of darkness and evil from his mouth that quickly extended outwards for five hundred feet, and if THAT mist touched Natasha she would immediately take damage from it equal in danger to a Cero. If she stayed in the mist it would damage her over time for more, but Kaze figured she would deal with it or leave it's area of effect. He then shunpo'd and was suddenly behind Natasha swinging his sword for her spinal column from bottom to top, following this he fired a Cero from his free hand at her left leg.

Once again, his mask would continue to don his features, however something else would happen to him that Natasha hadn't been previously familiar with. He would begin to form into something that resembled the monsterlike features of a hollow, except he was still in a humanoid sort of form. She had been informed of the Vizard race once, however she had very little informatiom on them. She had never seen their abilities and she honestly still couldn't wrap her mind around them. What was it that had made them this way? How did this one manage to become so monsterous? What was this power?

Nonetheless, Natasha was unafraid as she simply saw him as just another enemy, another monster, and another prey. She would continue to come at her with her punch, until she would collide with his energy. Her eyes would become widened as she watched her hand catch flame and she would find herself retreating back just a few feet. Of course, her hand would burn and some of it would find itself melted away, however she hadn't a single shread of feeling in her arms. Natasha's metallic arms would simply begin to regenerate as she wouod glare at Kaze. "That wasn't very nice," Natasha would speak as the mist began to form around her. Green eyes would take a moment to scan the mist wondering what its purpose was, until she began to feel immense pain in her torso area up through to the top of her head. It felt as though her skin was burning throughout whatever parts of her body could feel it. It was almost as if she were being eaten alive.

In a moment's notice, Natasha would watch as Kaze would get behind her swinging his sword up towards her spine. Natasha would attempt to use blur to get away from his swing as she would place her arm in front of her through the atmopshere onky to oull back out her giant hammer. As she would spin around swinging her hammer at Kaze with her remaining left hand, a cero would connect with her left leg causing it to malfunction disabling the jets in her leg. This would also make it much more difficult to move her joints as the malfunction was in a state of regenerating and repairing itself. Nonetheless, Natasha would still make her swing all the way around to hopefully strike Kaze. From the appearance of things, Natasha's hand was almost finishing regenerating itself from the aura it had connected with earlier, however the rest of the skin on her body was beginning to feel much more pain as it began to turn red and become enflamed in a few places.