Chapter 9
Several days later of constant travel, Coro looked over the forest on a small hill and saw a village ahead.
'Maybe I could ask them if they've seen Sky.' coro thought as she continued to walk towards the village.
After about a half hour of walking along the road, Coro spotted in the distance a horse cart racing towards her, 'It's obviously been spooked, maybe I could try to use haki.' Coro thought as the cart rapidly approached.
Coro stood her ground in the middle of the road as the horse ran straight at her. Suddenly, she extended her consciousness like a blast of air. The horse neighed and locked its knees in effort to stop before it hit Coro. As Coro stood there, the horse finally came to a halt with its nose in Coro's face.
"Good boy." Coro praised as she calmly reached up and rubbed the nose of the horse, which heved in relief and comfort.
As she sat there rubbing the horse, Coro sensed two people coming from either side of her. Instantly Coro whipped out one of her swords in her right hand, just blocking a set of throwing stars aimed at her. Sensing movement to both sides, Coro dropped the trunk and threw both swords to either side of her.
"Ga!" She heard on both sides of her immediately after two thunks. Picking the right side, Coro walked to where she had thrown her sword. Buried up to the hilt in a tree, her sword had caught the sleeve of a teen girl with pink hair and a headband, who was trying furiously to pull the sword out of the tree.
"Ug! Come on!" She grunted as she heaved on the hilt.
"We couldn't keep the other waiting." Coro said evenly, making the girl stop and tense up.
"Who are you?! And how did you stop the mail?" the girl asked as she backed against the tree and Coro walked up to her.
"I'll explain later." Coro said as she gripped the handle of her sword.
To the girl's amazement, Coro pulled the entire tree out of the ground by her sword, put the hilt on her shoulder, and walked to the other side of the road. As Coro approached her other sword, which was buried in a tree like before but, this time there was a teen wearing an orange jacket and pants caught by the blade.
Coro swung the tree off her shoulder and set it next to the boy's tree with a thud, startling him.
"Great Sakura! we're both caught by the same person when all we had to do is protect the mail!" The boy yelled at the girl.
"It's not my fault that you scared the horse several miles back Naruto. And now this person probably has thugs taking the mail and money to some location to be sold off." The girl shot back as Coro heard a whine and saw the trunk come running to her next to the horse.
'At least I know that they are the people I need.' Coro thought before trying to intervene, "Enough now."
"Yeah but it was your fault for breaking the house when you threw me through the wall!" the two continued arguing, much to Coro's annoyance.
'Guess I'll have to do this.' Coro thought as she extended her consciousness to the two and swapped their minds.
Instantly, they stopped arguing and looked at each other before looking at Coro.
"How did you do that?" the girl, Sakura, asked from the boy's body.
"And how do you have more chakra than the nine-tailed fox?"The the boy, Naruto, asked from Sakura's body.
Suddenly, Sakura in Naruto's body began wrething in pain. Sakura cried out in pain as Naruto's body covered over in flames, a fox's head appeared, and nine large tails fanned behind her.
"Finally! Someone has released me!" A voice bellowed as Coro stared Calmly at the fox.
"I thought I Felt another consciousness in there when I switched them." Coro Mocked the demon.
"Dont mess with me princess." the demon returned.
"What did you call me?" Coro asked as her temper rose.
"Princess, what of it?" The fox continued to mock.
"Dont call me that." Coro said sternly back, trying to control her temper, and unnerving the demon.
"What's the matter Princess? Dont like the name?" The fox taunted, angering Coro more by the second.
"Get back in that body's head before I hurt you." Coro warned as she pulled out her swords and gripped them tightly.
"Make me." The nine tailed fox said, breaking Coro's temper limit.
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After searching all day for Coro in Sky, Harrow was in the boiler room of Sky, checking the gauges like he did once a day, Harrow stopped in front of the gauge that he replaced at the beginning of the trip.
Suddenly, the gage skyrocketed up and around the dial.
'uh oh.' was all that Harrow thought before, several other gages broke off the walls or exploded. Suddenly, the pressure release lever rattled forward and steam bellowed from the stacks. Harrow ran to the deck in panic.
"San! Can you see Coro?!" Harrow shouted in concern over the bellowing steam.
"No!" San yelled back as ashitaka reported the same.
Suddenly, a massive white ball grew out of the forest and exploded in a vast white light. A shockwave traveled through the trees, destroying them as it went, As it reached Sky, Harrow grabbed onto the rail as the ship suddenly heaved over and Harrow was almost blasted off the deck.
"What… was that?" San yelled down after the shock wave had passed and a large mushroom cloud rose high into the air.
"Probably Coro." Harrow stated as he stared at the destruction and Sky's alarm blared.
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