[quote=AbigailTenshi]
Rio's eyes grew wide as she hit Kaizo. He just stood dead still and took the attack. Her trail of thought was sliced short as Kaizo fired a powerful Sōkatsui at her. Immediately, Rio blocked her face by lifting both arms crossed over her face as she withstood the attack, knowing that she wouldn't of been fast enough to escape it even if she tried. The attack hit her head-on and swallowed her whole. After the Hado has diminished, Rio became visible again, her body smoking as she panted heavily with her head tilted downwards so that half of her face was covered by her hair. The clothing on her forearms had been burned off, searing the skin on her arms and legs. After taking a moment to recompose herself, she stood up straight, both Zanpakuto's in her hands before she launched off of her back foot, aiming to slice the front of Kaizo's chest with both blades parallel from the top of his right shoulder down to his left hip. Her teeth were grit and eyes focused on Kaizo's form.
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Kaizo remained where he stood as he watched Rio take the attack, he then saw her dart out from the little smoke that remained and come at Kaizo aiming to cut him in what seemed like a cross pattern, Kaizo grabbed the hilt of his Zanpakuto with his left hand and ripped it out of it's sheath as he lifted his Zanpakuto to meet with Rio's as they crossed, effectively blocking both, he would then give one more harder push to break them apart before swinging the right side of his body in towards Rio as he right fist flew up towards her gut. He put enough force into the punch that he could send her back a little bit, Kaizo needed this sort of practice, it was good to combine something like Zanjutsu and Hakuda...it made him just that little bit more unpredictable