Chapter 8
Coro braced herself against the mind numbing time, she asked Sky, 'So, where are we headed? And who do we pick up?"
'This world is the world of ninjas, we are looking for, Naruto, and Sakura.'Sky told her as they sailed slowly over the land.
"Well, I'll take a walk around the deck, it'll keep me awake. If something happens to me, wake Harrow." Coro said as she walked out of the bridge and onto the deck.
"Man it's a lovely night." Coro said to herself as she walked around.
Suddenly, Coro spotted something come flying out of the trees towards her.
'What's that?'Coro thought curiously as she walked to the rail.
As the object came closer, Coro got a better look at it.
'Is that a log?''She thought.
Unbeknownst to Coro, something was launched behind her from the forest and sped in an arc towards her back.
As Coro identified the object she was focused on, the object through behind her, hit her in the back of the head with a bone crushing smack. Coro immediately felt tremendous pain and blacked out. As she blacked out, the force of the impact flipped her limp body over the rail and into the forest below. As she hit the ground, Coro became conscious enough to get one last look at Sky as he continued to fly by overhead, before receding into blackness.
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Coro awoke with a start, as she looked around, she realized her head was propped against something alive and slowly turned around. Behind her was a chest with two eyes on the lid and four legson top of that, two sock monkeys were riding it. Suddenly, one of them lifted it's head and Coro heard, "Mama? Mama!" before they both jumped onto her, and snuggled around her neck affectionately.
When Coro gently pulled them off and set them on the chest, which licked her with a big, slobbery tongue, they gave her a sad look. As Coro watched them, she thought she actually saw tears in their eyes, and the trunks, as it slowly turned around.
"Fine! You can come along!" Coro said as she couldn't take the crying any more.
"Yeah!" both of the monkeys cried as the trunk turned around and ran next to her and set itself down peacefully next to her like a dog.
"But you all need a bath." Coro replied as she saw they were covered in dust and headed for the nearest stream.
As they arrived, Coro found a brush in her bag and began to clean the trunk off as both monkeys played in the shallows of a pool. As the layers of grime came off the chest, she saw beautiful carvings etched into the lid and sides of the trunk.
"Amazing carvings." Coro said as she finished cleaning and the trunk wined happily.
"Now open up." Coro ordered the trunk nicely.
With a small creak, the trunk's top opened up and Coro peaked inside, rows of books, throwing stars, bags, and money lined the bottom.
"Good boy" Coro said as she closed the lid, "Now what to feed you?"
The trunk suddenly burped up a bone before two ghost like hands picked it up and put it back.
"That answers that." Coro said as she turned to the monkey and found them clean from playing in the water. One, a light grey, the other was a charcoal black.
"Let's go." Coro said and picked up the monkeys and placed them on her hat brim, before hoisting the trunk onto her shoulder with it's side handles. As the monkeys' feet dangled over her brim, Coro headed down the road.
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