Okay guys, here is my first story in a long while. If its crap, tell me :'( but if you'd like me to carry it on then please say and I will try and make it awesome. The story follows Naruto, a cook on an interplanetary freighter and his adventures. Whether this is going to have Yaoi or whatever, I'm not sure yet, please suggest it if you want it, but Sasuke is going to come into it regardless R&R
The ship slowly came into being around Naruto as he rubbed his eyes slowly with the backs of his hands. His hair and clothes were relatively (for Naruto) clean, though they were marked with various food stains. He found himself slouched in his small plastic chair with a half-eaten carrot dangling comically from his mouth. Grabbing onto it and munching it again he looked about his small but familiar kitchen. There were a couple of drawers, full of various knives and cutlery, a couple of saucepans and a frying pan hanging off the wall, one of which was missing half the handle, and various random pictures of Naruto's family and various ships which he found interesting. The whole room was covered in a light dusting of dirt and grime – the kitchen was incidentally the only room we wasn't told to clean, due to him being the only one whoever went in there.
He took a long sniff of the air, smiling contently "Mmm, bacon." He sighed happily, before his smile turned to a puzzled frown, "Bacon?" and then a panicked frown "Shit! The bacon!" he got up and rushed over to the spare frying pan, which contained a few heavily charred rashers of bacon, "Aw god damn it!" he sighed, throwing them into the vacuum shoot, sending them out into space.
"Cook!" the intercom cracked "Where the heck is our food?" Naruto rolled his eyes, quickly throwing together some cheese sandwiches. He rushed out of the kitchen holding a plate of them, through the ships main hallway and into the crew quarters. The crew's quarters featured a medium size rectangular metallic table, not really embellished with much decoration, aside from the scratches on the corner when the ship's pilot, Kiba, would regularly sharpen his large hunting knife – more of an item of antiquated interest than a weapon in these times. "What the heck took you so long?" the captain, a pink haired, and more than slightly disturbed girl of around Naruto's age shot him a death glare, "And I thought I told you we were having bacon tonight?" she was now yelling "Fucking useless kid!" she rolled her eyes, grabbing a sandwich "Go on piss off," she ordered, dismissing him with a wave of her hand.
Naruto's shoulders dropped as he walked out of the crew quarters, grabbing a mop from the utility room off the main hallway and started to mop the floor of the hallway. Stupid bitch. He thought to himself.She can't speak to me like that! It's so uncalled for, they'd be screwed without me here cooking their stupid meals and cleaning their stupid crappy ass freighter. He kicked the metal wall, stubbing his toe and yelping quietly.
The ship Naruto worked on, the stupidly (In Naruto's current opinion) named ship, 'The drowned rat', was a freighter which transported precious minerals from the quickly growing mining complex on mars back to the Uchihacorp space station in orbit around earth, where the minerals were dropped into the ocean on earth in large containers. Even with the most modern rocket engines, the trip took about 3 months each way, depending on the position of each planet in orbit, and they got a week of leave on each end, meaning Naruto didn't have much time at all away from the tiny little ship, and those tiny headed idiots he shared it with.
Naruto's wages weren't all that either and he spent the majority of the money he made in the entertainment complex on mars and in its counterpart on the space station. He did however have a small amount of savings in his Uchihacorp bank account – he was saving to buy his own ship one day, and though he wasn't sure what he was going to use it for, he sure as hell wasn't going to use it for transporting freight!
Two long months afterwards, Naruto heard a welcome message on the intercom "Attention crew, we are approaching Doughnut, ETA 5 minutes." Naruto washed the soap he had been washing his hands with off, and ran over to the transparent steel window in the kitchen, grinning like an idiot at the site of the large structure.
The station itself was essentially a slowly rotating massive metal doughnut (hence the nickname), about ten miles in circumference. The rotation created simulated gravity on the inside of the outer edge of the structure, and there was a thin looking metal rod extending from the inner edge to the docking bays in the centre. The station functioned as the only way in and out of earth for freight from the three mining projects in the solar system.
The ship flew towards the docking bays, Kiba skilfully flying the small freighter between the larger ships of various functions, as Naruto looked out the window happily. Soon the ship flew into its designated docking bay, a cavernous steel room flanked with large columns depicting various images of industry. "You have one week before we leave, if you're not back at precisely 6:00 AM standard time then you stay here."