[quote=AbigailTenshi]
A cloud of red smoke surrounded Shou, causing Rio to take a breath before she focused. Rio pondered as a tumbleweed shot out of the smoke, hovering above her. Bending slightly, Rio held Hana firmly, her left hand behind her as she twisted her body towards the right. She didn't take her eye off of the smoke, even as another tumbleweed left it. She could see what he was tying to do... Maybe he was just using this as a distraction? Or maybe that'd be too obvious... Was this a set up of some sort?... Rio kept herself focused, narrowing her eye a little as the obvious third tumbleweed didn't burst out which must of meant that Shou wasn't inside the smoke anymore. Rio had her left index finger pointed opposite to the direction she was looking. Shou would of been thrust backwards if hit, which then Rio would whip her body towards him, clashing her Katana against his blade if he tried to block, or facing the cutting edge of her Zanpakuto horizontal to his neck. 
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As Shou got behind Rio he saw her pointing at him, Shou quickly formed a tumbleweed then leaped into the air as the tumbleweed was hit by the hado, Shou then twisted in the air, his feet facing the sky as he pointed his left palm to the sky and fired off a Hado 31 that propelled him towards Rio at great speed, as he flew towards her he twisted in the air, aiming to cut Rio anywhere or at least clash with her. She may have felt this was over but Shou wouldn't give up so easily! he still had much more he could do...