Chapter 10

Coro stood panting, stock still facing Naruto's body in the middle of a massive blast crater.

"How could I have lost?" The fox said as Naruto's body fell flat on it's back.

'Know your place.' Coro coldly as she touched the fox's mind and he recoiled and asked, "How do you have so much Chakra? It's more than mine!"

"What!" Naruto said as she paled in thought from Sakura's body. Coro looked around, the only things not touched by the blast was the trunk, the sock monkeys, Sakura's body, and her. Naruto's body was black and blue with bruises.

"Ouch...What happened to me." Sakura said as Coro was relieved when she returned.

"Now that's settled, I'm Coro Elysium and I was searching coincidentally for the both of you to ask you an important question. Do you wish to join me?" Coro asked as she sat on the trunk's lid when it set itself down next to her.

"Join you? What do you mean 'join you'?" Naruto asked.

"As in I give you strong powers in exchange for you coming with me to pick up my other crewmembers." Coro explained after she sheathed her swords.

"I'm in!" Naruto replied excitedly.

"I guess." Sakura feebly said from the ground.

"Then I might as well do this." Coro said and launched a steam ball at each of them. As the ball hit both their chests, and they fell to the ground, Coro extended her mind to both of theirs and gave them the experience to control their powers, not well but still control.

As they came to, they looked at each other and smiled, "We're back in our original bodys!"

'that's weird, they should still be in the other's body.' Coro thought as she watched them chat happily.

'I can now travel between the two' Coro heard the fox demon think from Sakura's body, stopping the two from chatting..

"That shouldn't be possible.. unless you both have a new power." Coro told them.

"Naruto, put your hand to mine." Sakura said as Coro watched.

Naruto did as he was asked, but as his hand touched Sakura's, it became apart of her's.

"Cool I can control body parts!" Naruto said in joy.

"Pervert." Coro and Sakura said as they sweatdropped.

"Well, you both also share your chakra, thoughts, feelings emotions, and any ..inner beings.

"well now what?" Sakura asked as Coro picked up the trunk.

"We search for my ship, the Midnight Sky, I accidentally fell off." Coro explained, Also you can take out your heart and use it for things, see." as she pulled out the blue steam ball and showed them.

"**boom** Ahhh! Lookout!" they heard someone cry at that moment.

"Who is tha-" Was all that Naruto said before a teen boy crashed into Coro's gut and landed on the steam ball. Naruto and Sakura watched as the ball entered the boy's chest as he piled onto a stunned Coro.

"Ugg, what happened?" the boy said as he looked up and noticed where he was.

'pervert!' Coro thought and swung her sword up, smacked him on the side of the head, launching him across the wide crater, and into a tree.

'ow~! you would think a vixen would be nicer to a boy who was just launched out of a battle.' Coro froze as she heard in her mind.

"No. No this can't be!" Coro said as she slumped to the ground in rising panic.
'What's wrong Coro?" Naruto asked.

"I just found my other half." Coro replied with a far off look in her eyes.

"Other half?" the boy asked after he had removed himself from the tree facing Coro.

Coro noded, "All Exileans have a person with the same powers, and abilities as them. If they come into contact with them, their minds connect with a small bridge, thus allowing them to hear the other's thoughts, and feelings. They also get more powers when their minds attach, Naruto and Sakura have this, that's how they have the new ability to control their body parts, which I'm sure I have now. Also, since I'm heir to the throne of Exile, that makes him...the prince of Exile."

"So, what's your name?" the boy asked, utterly confused.

"Coro Elysium. Yours?" Coro said as she buried her face in her hands.

"Terrian Sallow. But I prefer Tery" The boy said as he stood up and looked at the trunk and sock monkeys.

"Well, nothing we can do now. Let's try to find your ship, what does it look like?" Sakura said, trying to lift Coro's mood.

"You'll know it when you see it." Coro replied through her sleeve.

Suddenly, they felt a shudder run through the ground.

"What the heck?" Naruto said as they felt another shudder.

"That would be my ship, the Midnight Sky." Coro said with a putout sigh.

"Y-y-our ship?" Tery said nervously. Boom! A large metal foot planted itself a few feet away from Coro's side.

"Coro~!" Coro heard Harrow call out.

Coro didn't answer and Harrow jumped down and joined them on the ground.

"What's wrong with her?" Harrow asked the group as Coro sat in despair on the trunk.

"She apparently met her match." Sakura explained to Harrow.

"Harrow, this is Naruto, Sakura, and Tery." Coro said from her seat.

"Looks like I'm going to have to use the 'P' word to snap her out of it. I only hope I Can weather the storm." Harrow told them.

"Don't! I mocked her with that word and this crater happened!" the Fox demon said, catching on to what word he was going to use.

"Wait, give me your swords, I'm Coro's equal, I should be able to hold her off." Tery ordered Harrow.

"No, you're a rookie, she'll cream you!" Harrow argued.

"Too, bad." Tery said as he grabbed Harrows twin swords and yelled in Coro's ear, "Come on you crybaby princess! Get up!"

"What did you do!" they all yelled at Tery as their jaws dropped, stunned at what he said.

Suddenly, Coro's fists clenched up and she began to shudder slightly. Skys stacks began to erupt smoke rhythmically, like they had engines four times as large as the normal ones in the base of them. Coro's right hand suddenly uppercutted Tery's jaw, sending him high in the air.

"Know your place!" Cor said as she launched up and tried to pound him back into the ground, only to be stopped by Tery's swords.

"I know my place, I'm next to you!" Tery said as they ploughed into the ground.

Coro pulled out her swords and began to battle Tery with a cry of, "Then take that back!"

After the two battled for several minutes, neither landing a blow afterwards, Harrow whistled in amazement, "Wow, even green, he is still equal to Coro."

As Coro locked Swords with Tery for a moment, she told him, "I'll never secum to you if you want power."

Straining for every inch, Tery suddenly thought of an idea how to beat her as he felt her anger, he suddenly whispered to her, "Then it's a good thing that I don't want power." And kissed her in the tip of her nose.

When Coro heard those words and felt the kiss, she immediately stopped struggling and fainted into Tery's arms.

"I don't know how he did it, but he saved us from a meltdown." Harrow whispered to Sakura.

"How big of a meltdown?" Sakura asked curiously.

"Planet destroying." Harrow simply answered as Sakura paled and Naruto did to when he received this information.

"Will someone grab the trunk." Tery asked as he lifted Coro up with the sockmonkeys riding on his shoulder.

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As soon as Coro touched the deck of Sky, she woke up from her faint.

"Hey, how do you feel?" Tery asked her.

'Like a truck hit me.' Coro thought as she stood on her feet shakily.

"What's a truck?" Tery asked her confused.

"Think of a cart only twelve times bigger!" Harrow yelled from across the deck, where he was working.

"Oh I forgot." Coro mumbled and touched his mind.

'You know this is kind of freaky. How are you able to do it,...and how do you have so much Chakra?' Tery asked after she gave him the knowledge of how to use his powers.

'The chakra is shared between us and I think that tonight once I explain everything it will make sense.' Coro thought in response as she guided Sky into the darkening night.

'Sky? Can we visit Q and May?' Coro asked the ship as she spun the wheel lightly to one side.

'Our next stop is close to a million years in the future on our home world, Exiles live indefinitely unless mortally injured. So we'll likely see them when we arrived, along with pick up two people from that time. The new crew's names are Lendo and Amy.' Sky told her peacefully.

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"...And that's how we came to be in this world….that's all." Coro finished explaining several hours later. Suddenly, Sky announced to them all, 'I'm beginning to jump to the next world, please hang on.' as the floor shook slightly.

"So, am I the Captain of this ship?" Tery asked questioningly.

"I am, and your second. I've been on here the longest." Coro told him.

"Wow, I never knew that all this happened." Naruto said amazed.

"Yeah, and my real dad gave me all of his experience at the beginning of the trip. Since he had his own adventures with the original ship, which is right now locked in a living tree if ice." Coro added.

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