Space was quiet and dark, and the galaxy shimmered in twinkling light as a lone spacecraft glided among the various stars and planets. The spacecraft had a ridged and curved front; and a rather large body for a one person space vehicle. Wings accented each side of the craft, as the color scheme of the space craft was a gentle baby blue feature set, with a cream white main, and a blue star on both sides of the mainly white ship wings.
The pilot in the space craft was covered in a skinny futuristic, blue and white suit of exo armor, as the skinny and sleek dressed individual began to type on the holographic board in front of the main console. A holographic screen appeared on the console, with a man's face, the colored hologram going down to his chest. He had spiky hair, and a clear smooth face, his eyes were a cerulean blue.
"Boruto!" The man growled out as the bionic mask began to disassemble automatically to reveal the man in the space craft was really a blonde teen, with the same spiky blonde hair, electric blue eyes and a face as smooth as the man talking to him. "H-Hey Dad.." Boruto said with a nervous smile as the middle aged man just growled at Boruto further.
"Boru-!" The man tried to say but a voice came from the man's communicator on his chest, "Admiral Naruto," as the man tapped his communicator, which happened to be a blue star, "Fleet Admiral Uzumaki here..." Naruto quietly said as he could only glare at his son as the secretary continued, "President Andrews is on the Holocomm waiting to discuss matters with you." The quiet secretary proceeded to tell the Fleet Admiral, knowing who he was already on the Holocomm with in the first place.
Naruto sighed as he rubbed his frustrated and scrunched forehead, and nodded to himself. "Alright Danielle, I'll pick his call up in just a moment." Naruto replied to the secretary as he hit the communicator effectively hanging up with the woman.
The authoritative Fleet Admiral glanced at his son with a furious glare marred on his face, "You are in a lot of trouble young man, what is the meaning of this?! I'm all for you exploring and gaining your own experiences, but you did it in the wrong manner! Your poor mother is worried sick?! Your older brother and younger sister both miss you, and do you know how worried I am?!" Naruto exclaimed, the last bit with a tint of hurt in his voice, showing the older man really cared about his son. Boruto felt himself softening up like he was ready to cry but he shook his head, "I saved up my credits for this ship myself, Dad. I've been honestly planning to explore out on my own since I was eleven. Mom and you have always acted like you've had my best interests at heart, but when have you ever supported my dreams of going among the stars?" Boruto questioned ferociously as Naruto slightly sighed.
The older blonde slightly shifted in his seat, causing him to slightly move on the screen as he had a quiet and disappointed look on his face. "Your mother and I, have always had your best interests at heart. You wanted to learn to play the guitar, so I paid for your lessons with some of the greatest musicians at the time and even bought you a guitar holoprogram. You wanted to explore the galaxy when you grew older, so I sponsored you into the Terran youth corp so that you would get interested in the Federation's military, perhaps you could be a Fleet Admiral like your old man, or even President of the entire federation. We have always had your best interests and heart son, we love you-" the Blonde man had explained but was cut off at the last moment by Boruto who didn't want to hear it, "Save it! Listen, I will always love mom, my siblings and you dad, but this is something I have to do on my own, I don't want to be the prodigal son of Fleet Admiral Uzumaki anymore! Or the son of the Illustrious Hinata Hyuuga, the heiress of the Hyuuga technology corporation who invented the Federation's current Exo suit designs and other life saving technologies! I just want to be Boruto Uzumaki, me!" the teen said pleadingly as his parents jobs and popularity had always bothered and stained him.
People often had expectations for the poor teen which often felt too high for him. Teachers had always gloated about him in class, often causing bullies to ridicule him out of their own jealousy and anger. When he was on the street, it wasn't them greeting Boruto as a person, they just automatically greeted the teen as the son of two prodigies so they assumed great things would come from him. Naruto had gained a slight tic mark on his forehead as the older man ran his scarred and slightly damaged right hand through his shorter cropped hair. "Fine, you want to be a big man so bad? Go ahead, but when you're shot down or in death's claws, don't expect me to help you! Just remember, half of that technology you have right now, the Exo suit, the laser sword and plasma pistol's on board most Terran space craft, half of the emergency items in that ship are from Hyuuga corp. You're mothers family really does save lives, instead of dogging on what your mother's family and what I have personally accomplished, why don't you focus on yourself and be the best man you can be?! No one is asking you to become a god or President of the galaxy if that's what you assume!" Naruto practically shouted, 'Where the fuck is his audacity coming from?' the blonde man thought as it hurt his son didn't respect his position, but more than that Boruto was letting his poor mother worry her heart out about him.
Boruto growled and huffed, "Fine then! I don't need you or anyone, I will follow my own destiny without you!" The blonde teenager shouted as he forced the Holocomm to end, the teen shoving his face in his hands as he slowly tried to reel his emotions in, as anger, sadness, and guilt flooded his mind. Naruto just gave a large grunt as he threw a futuristic cup violently against a wall in his office and sighed as it slowly reformed together and flew back onto his desk. 'Fucking brat... Was I this bad at his age?' Naruto quietly thought as he reigned his feelings and became professional again as he answered the President's call, "Good morning President Andrews, sorry about the wait..."
Andrew's was a Caucasian man in his sixties who nodded with a smile, "It's quite alright Uzumaki, may I ask what's wrong? You seem a bit tense, I can see the sweat on your brow through our Holocomm." The charismatic President chirped as the middle aged admiral just nodded with a small forced smile as he sighed, "Boruto has run off... He's at the legal adult age of seventeen... But it just hurts so much, he left with anger pointed towards Hinata and I." the hurting fleet leader said as Andrews nodded sympathetically.
"I know exactly that situation, I was a lot like him as I had left my own family when I was rather young, but back then the legal adult age was about twenty. I hope your son is safe, I will personally speak with other diplomats and interstellar leaders to keep an eye on your boy if you wish." The older man said with a smile as Naruto gave a grateful nod, "Thank you President, anyway. Perhaps we should discuss the Orion Union." Naruto said as the conversation's subject matter began to darken.
Boruto was absolutely livid as his face mask that he had summoned to be disassembled had formed back on, a simple black surface with no eye holes or any features whatsoever. The Exo suit Boruto wore was literally attached to him with nothing but his will and robotic implants in his nerves, as he was given the right to an Exo suit at an early age, which was extraordinary and had shown his prodigy status early on. Most Exo suit users were above twenty years old, while Boruto had earned the right to his at age sixteen, but it's fair to mention how his mother also owned the company which invented Exo suits in the first place for the Terran Federation's soldiers to use as armor and a weapons system.
Boruto typed on several holographic keyboards with plain English on them as he continued an uninterrupted warp into further unknown space. "I'll miss them... But I have to do this for myself... I am strong." the blonde teenager quietly said as he tried to justify his actions to himself, he was an adult now by law! So with this in mind, the young rebellious man felt that he was ready for whatever the universe threw at him.
Planet Kuf'rore
On a planet in a different solar system that was rather uncharted by the Terran Federation, the planet maintains almost every ecosystem imaginable, and there on planet Kuf'rore lives hundreds of species that thrive and coexist with each other, under the stratosphere that was coated with a thin and gentle violet instead of the ocean blue many humans on earth were used to.
A moderately sized village was bustling, as the humanoids who inhabited the planet began to walk to work, or for their other daily exchanges. These humanoids had many differences from the humanoid factions who travelled amongst the stars who originated on Earth. The species on this planet appeared to be humanoid in form, but they had the features of animals, such as fur along their forms, animal ears, and many had tails.
A tall man who happened to be a Merchant in the cities main market district with brown fur all over his body, and rather cute bear ears smiled and greeted an older orange furred woman with tiger ears as she went to sample the food he sold at his vending cart. A male tiger Merchant was shouting out about how great his weapons were, as a crowd began to meet in the center markets, ready to shop and participate in commerce.
A young woman with white fur all along her form ran through the streets with a smile on her face as she held a basket filled with chocolates. She had adorable kitten ears, and a long white tail which wrapped around her slender waist as she ran down the street.
She wore a black skirt, with an aqua tank top that showed off the young woman's curvy form as the woman held the basket close to her stomach. The hair that grew from her head was long and a dark midnight color, while her eyes were a gentle sky blue.
The happy young woman rounded a corner and ran into a larger male with tiger ears and long orange fur and a tail. "Ohh Sarada, sorry to have knocked you over." The man said with a disrespectful grin on his face as he looked at the baskets close to the girl's chest, "What is that you have there?"
Sarada frowned as she held the basket close to her, "C-Chocolates, Madara..." the fluffy female quietly said as the black furred man with tiger stripes and ears quietly nodded, "Tell you mother I said hello." Madara said with a disgusting grin as the man and his thugs walked on.
Sarada quickly ran inside of the flower shop her mother co-owned as she smiled at a woman with purple fur, and fox ears and a tail, "Hey Ino! Have you seen my mother?" The younger kitten asked as the fox with flowing blonde hair shrugged her shoulders, "I've been manning the shop all morning." Ino said with a smile, "I think Satsuki may still be at your home." The older humanoid said with a smile as the white furred kitten woman nodded, "Ill go check!"
And with that, Sarada quickly ran a few blocks to a large house on the outskirts of the jungle village. It was a circular design, with a larger top, and quite resembled a mushroom made out of wood, as the lavender air danced off the large home.
"Mama?" Sarada called stepping inside as a black furred woman with cat ears and a long tail, with long raven hair, and midnight eyes walked down the stairs from the upper level and smiled, "Welcome home sweetie, what is that in your hands?" Satsuki asked curiously. Satsuki wore tight black jeans, and bandages wrapped around her large chest to keep her furred chest from being exposed.
The woman walked into the kitchen as she began to make the two some hot tea in a fireplace as she placed a pot of leaf water to boil on the fire. Sarada smiled as she sat with her mother on the living room couch they possessed, "Mrs. Kurenai told me to give these chocolates to you!" The young woman exclaimed with a smile as Satsuki coyly nodded.
"So, what did you do today honey?" Satsuki asked with a smile as she gratefully took a newspaper Sarada handed her, as the girl shyly smiled and began to recite all that she had done today.
"U-Um I worked with Mrs. Kurenai on Genjutsu... then I went on a walk with my friends... I-Inojin was there." Sarada said with a small smile on her face as the obvious bright red blush showed through her fur.
Sarada had become scared as Satsuki's demeanor hardened, "Oh...? A boy?" The woman asked sounding rather calm, but her hands were practically gripping the newspaper like her life depended on it.
"Um yes, but nothing happened mama, I swear!" Sarada quickly said trying to keep her mother from becoming angry, but it was a little too late for that. "Sarada, what have I told you about men?!" Satsuki began to shout with a hidden fury in her voice as Sarada gulped and looked down quietly, "T-To not interact socially with them..." Sarada gently said as Satsuki slightly calmed down and nodded, "Good girl."
Satsuki couldn't go back to reading her paper as Sarada asked a question that irritated her on a spiritual level, "M-Mom, can I atleast ask why...?" Sarada gently asked, Satsuki gritting her teeth further and looking at her daughter with an angry glint in her eye.
"Because the men may not show it.. but all they do is view women as sex objects! They demean us and belittle us!" The woman angrily cried, still suffering from past experiences, Sarada rather shocked at the hate her mother held. Satsuki had always told her daughter to stay away from the men in their village, but Sarada never had the courage to ask until now.
"But Mom, how can all men be the sa-." Sarada tried to say, but was cut off by the agitated Satsuki, "Y-Your father impregnated me and gave me the greatest gift I've ever gotten, you. But then he left me for some whore with a nicer body!" The beautiful furred woman shouted with pain and anger on the edge of her voice as Sarada had wide tearful eyes.
The younger kitten tried to hug her mother as the woman only pushed her away in fear, Satsuki really unable to cope with her own emotions at this point. Satsuki quickly stood up and quickly ran up the stairs intent on crying in her bedroom. "Just remember what I told you Sarada... Stay away from men, become an honorary virgin to the goddess if you must, but stay away from them." The woman quietly said as she retired to her bedroom, Sarada a blaze of emotions.
The white furred cat ran out of her large home as she began to run towards the forests outside of the village. The jungles and forests of her planet covered half of the world, with many animals and species living in the jungles. Sarada slowed down her running as she quietly climbed and sat on a tree branch high in the sky to reflect on her current feelings and situation in life.
Space...
Boruto gave a sigh of relief as he had just dropped out of warp and looked around through his front windows and holographic screens. He pressed an icon and grinned under his suits mask, "Captain Boruto's log..." the runaway teen said jokingly, "It is now stardate -143212.000158." Boruto calmly said as he was observing the nearby star system his small vessel began to fly past quickly.
"I've made no meetings with any other crea-." Boruto continued to say in a fake captains log until a real hail message popped up on his holocomm. Boruto quieted down as he tapped the hail button and the screen infront of him changed.
A bald man with a white beard, steel grey eyes, and what appeared to be a purple uniform glared angrily at Boruto. "I am Captain Torren, funny to see a wormy little Terran here, did you get lost on your way to the nursery?" The man rudely stated as Boruto was confused...
"U-Um What?" The blonde quietly said as his suit morphed his voice causing him to sound a bit older. 'Huh... Purple uniforms...' Boruto casually thought but he quickly gasped, 'Oh fuck, the Orion Union!'
The older man began to arrogantly laugh as infront of Boruto's now halted shuttle, a purple Orion warship decloaked and phased into existence. 'Fuck... Orionese warbirds must be in the sector patrolling and ambushing random Merchant vessels...' Boruto thought perceptively as the man grinned at the exo suit wielder, "Your exo suit must be impressive, but you can't hold out against an entire Orion warbird. We've scanned your ship and are willing to let you go if you give us all of your supplies." The man said with a tone of finality as Boruto tried to think of what he could do!
Eventually the teen sighed and shook his head, "Sorry bud." The blonde said in his robotic Exo voice, "I'm afraid I can't do that. If knowing this would increase our chances for a friendship, I have my Exo suit for private reasons, I'm not associated with the Terran spacefleet and I promise won't mess with Orion interests abroad." The Blonde said trying to appease to the kindness of the Orion Captain, hoping he was a reasonable man.
Boruto's assumption of the man was of course wrong as the Captain began to laugh with a look of victory on his face, and Boruto knew the Captain was right with his next sentence, "Do you think a Terran civilian class that fits one person can take on an entire Orion warbird?" The Captain incredulously asked with a smug tone, as there were over four hundred crew members on the Orion ship at the moment, and then there was Boruto with a civilian ship that only shot class one torpedoes, the weakest kind.
"No, there's no way I can win in a fight with my current vehicle. That's why I wasn't looking for one." Boruto truthfully said as Captain Torren nodded, "Honesty is a virtue, but your time is up. If I was kind to every civilian ship who passed by, we wouldn't have a million credits at this point stocked up." The Orion Captain said with a foul smirk as Boruto grit his teeth under his mask and his fist clenched.
Torren continued to laugh as it appeared his men were laughing and talking in the background about killing Porelian traders. "How many have you killed...?" Boruto asked with a hint of malice in his voice, while the enemy Captain laughed, "Oh, close to two hundred in three months. It's a record, and your three hundred and one boy." Torren said with a glint of destruction in his eyes as the comm link ended and Boruto grunted in panic.
"Oh shit!" The suited up teen shouted as he began to enter in multiple orders in his console. "Send a distress signal out... raise shields... try to start the warp drive!" Boruto shouted as he began to make request messages as he slightly frowned and tried to call his dad, after the argument they had.
Torren nodded to his weapons specialist, "Fire a photon torpedo at his center, and shoot his engines with a beam blast. Light him up! He's sending a distress signal to every Terran ship in half of the galaxy!" The man shouted as he became a bit distraught, the Terrans and Orion's had an uneasy peace, and he couldn't let the Terrans learn about his Piracy and killing of innocent traders, because the Terrans would act.
Naruto appeared on the Holocomm as he was pensive at first, but seeing the fear in his sons eyes as Boruto had his face mask off, Naruto quickly became authoritative and caring. "Are you okay Boruto?! What's wrong?!" Naruto asked concerned as Boruto sighed with relief.
"Dad! I'm so glad you answered! I've run into an Orion Captain practicing piracy on poor merchants, and they're trying to kill me!" Boruto shouted as he began to steer his ship, trying to get away from the Orionese but the much larger warbird caught up to the small runabout pretty quick.
Naruto eyes became icy as he slowly nodded, "Boruto... keep flying. Try to make it to Terran space or even into any neutral alien empire or settlement regions. Get away from the Orion... keep your signal open though to Terran frequencies so that we can come save you!" Naruto said worriedly as he began to type on his console and prepare, he would personally save his son!
Boruto nodded, "I love you Dad... tell Mom and bro and sis I love them..." Boruto said quietly as he growled at the launched Orion torpedo now following his cruiser closely. "I'm entering warp." Boruto said as began to enter in the coordinates and distance.
Naruto nodded, "Yes, don't speak tha-." But Naruto wasn't able to finish as the torpedo impacted with Boruto's hull and a phaser beam damaged the cruisers engines.
"Shit, dad!" Boruto cried as he forced the small ship to go into warp, the engines being forced, even while damaged forced a chain reaction to take place, as Boruto and his ship blasted off at unimaginable speeds, even for normal warp technology.
"Boruto!" Naruto loudly shouted as the Holocomm dropped connection. Naruto furiously rushed out of his office and ran into the lower decks of the space station above earth he was currently posted in.
"Johnny! I'm off to earth!" The fleet Admiral shouted as a shocked Commander was stunned, "U-Um, Yes Fleet Admiral Uzumaki." Johnny quietly said as he went to attend to Naruto's administrative duties.
Naruto began his descent down to earth in a shuttle pod, intent on speaking with his wife, and then the president, and then saving his son. No matter the cost.
Torren huffed at the turn of events, "He warped off.. how? Didn't we hit his engines?! Helm?" He asked as the pilot of the warbird sighed and nodded, "Even though we hit his engines, the warp nacelles were still good enough to warp him out. As long as the engine is half functional, and the nacelles fully are, anything is possible. The Terran was blasted far away though, I don't know how." The pilot admitted as Torren nodded, "That's that then, if we can't find him then screw it. Let's get out of here, this solar system will be soon crawling with Terrans." The captain ordered as soon enough, the Orion warbird cloaked and warped out of the sector, leaving the few planets around a bright sun nearby to sit in peace again.
Boruto sighed a huff of relief as his civilian cruiser finally dropped out of the extreme warp. The problem now was he had no idea what sector or quadrant he was in! And as if that wasn't enough, his ship inside was smoking from the burst engines, and the warp nacelles had become damaged.
"God damnit!" Boruto cursed loudly as he continuously tried to contact any Terran ship he could. The problem was he was so far of range from any Terran or Terran allied satellite, or any similar alien satellite that he received no transmissions.
"Nothing... I'm caught in dead space. I'm getting no transmissions here.." Boruto said to himself absolutely puzzled as he pulled up a holographic map, and was shocked as he was on the border of the civilized galaxy with the unknown. 'I'm in the Omega Quadrant. It's never been explored yet, everyone is too afraid to explore here." Boruto said with a gulp as he frowned feeling his ship rock.
Red lights began to blare as his ship came alive in Alerts and warnings, as the blonde being to shout as he hit several panels and beeping icons. "Fuck!" Boruto cursed loudly, "My engines are done for! The warp nacelles are useable but they are damaged, NO!" The blonde shouted unhappily as he didn't want to be caught in space.
But being caught in space wasn't his worst worry as an unseen force rocked the cruiser roughly. "Gravity! Agh!" Boruto said agitatedly as he looked down and saw the lavender sky engulfing the planet that began to pull his small ship in. "Oh god... please. Let it be a breathable planet." Boruto quietly said as he didn't want to admit it, but he was afraid to die at this point, all alone with no one around.
On the planet surface, a relaxed Sarada was meditating on a gigantic tree branch as on her side of the planet, night began to take over as the planet continued to rotate on its natural course. Of course, Sarada's people still clung to the notion that all the stars, the sun and the moon were gods and spirits, as they had no utter idea what lye'd in the universe; or what sort of creatures would soon arrive, or even crashland.
Sarada showed an interest in space that many of her people did not. While many across the world either fought in Shinobi style wars, or lived their lives trying to keep peace alive and ignore the outside world, Sarada would spend long nights looking up at the night sky, imagining being up there herself; though she had no idea what it was like up there, many of her people comparing the heavens above as the literal heavens when you die.
All of Sarada's night sky watching paid off as the girl was surprised seeing a giant fire gleam across the sky. She didn't know how to react as the twinkling fire continued to get closer. 'W-Woah!' The woman thought as it began to get so close many furry humanoids across the area had become blind from the abnormal bright lights shooting off the space craft.
Boruto was piloting his landing the best he could. "Fuck! All navigational control is down, my warp nacelles and engine are gone, and my food replicator isn't working! Where are my potato chips?!" Boruto cried out as he braced for a violent impact, the only thing within miles to land on or in was jungle.
The blonde continued to shut down all of the working functions of the ship like the lights and climate controls as he focused all power left on the shields, as he wanted to preserve the ship the best he could. "This is it." Boruto quietly said as his life far flahed before his eyes.
NEXT TIME ON EXO KUF'RORE:
Sarada's eyes twitched at Boruto's movement, "What... are you doing?"
Torren growled, his steely eyes glaring at the Terran Fleet Admiral, "I have no idea what you mean Admiral Naruto, I've been patrolling the Delta sector this entire time, watching the Union's borders. No piracy here."
Satsuki's eyes widened, an anger deeply present in them. "What did you bring home, a furless monster?!"
Boruto smiled, his bright blue eyes a place of sanctuary in a life so difficult, as Sarada felt herself drawn to the young male. "I am a human, Sarada. I am apart of the Terran Republic.. A democratic spacefaring civilization... I am from beyond the stars. I am no god, only me."