[u]Rio Okotaru Darishimo[/u]

[i]'I can't believe how rude Kenta was to Kaizo! That was completely unnecessary! There was no need!... Gosh... I must of really been blind to his actual personality this whole time... Too busy focusing on how comfortable he was around me, but he's like that with everyone... I have seriously got to stop!'[/i] Rio's feet came to a halt as she found herself deep inside the forest, surrounded by bamboo trees. [i]'There should be only one thing on my mind... Training. I refuse to let myself fall behind due to foolish emotions.'[/i] Rio lifted her arm blades to take a few moments to look at them. She then closed her eyes and placed one foot behind her, couching down and stretching her arms behind her. 

A few moments of pure silence drifted past, along with falling leaves from the bamboo trees. Rio calmed herself to the point that she could hear her own steady heart-beat and deep breaths through her nose. Her back foot dug into the dirt floor, interrupting the silence before Rio's eyes shot open and she launched towards the first tree she saw, bringing both arms forward and twisting her body fully to the right before swiftly swinging both arm blades, parallel and horizontally, across the middle of the bamboo tree, cleanly slicing it into three pieces. 

Landing, Rio swerved her left foot around to pivot into a different direction, diagonal from her current location. Leaning back a little, she launched again, jumping and slicing the various trees in her path in different ways. Changing direction for the second time, she spotted a tree slightly thicker and smaller than the others so she wanted to try something. Crouching, she launched again, heading directly for this specific tree by shunpo'ing around the trees in her way. She then shunpo'ed into the air, her body horizontal above the specific tree. Rio then held her blades out a little before spinning at a high speed while dropping down the tree. The moment was exceptionally fast as the tree looked untouched when Rio stopped spinning due to her left blade lodging itself into the dirt floor. After a few seconds, the tree fell apart in two pieces; Rio had cut it straight down the middle. 

With her left blade held firmly in the dirt, Rio punched her right blade into the dirt also and steadied her body to hold it dead straight in the air. She was aiming to get more used to supporting her own body weight to help her fight more effectively. She refused to let her form falter and tried her utmost best to hold herself in place.