Some Divine Intervention

Three times in the course of Boruto: Two Blue Vortex (TBV), Boruto has had his life spared from death at the hands of the Shinju leader despite predictions from Koji Kashin's prescience that Jura is likely to kill him.

His first escape occurred soon after the Shinju's birth, an event he tried to stop before the monsters were even created. Against Koji's orders, Boruto stays within range of Jura to fight Hidari, the Shinju containing Sasuke's Thorn Bulb, in hopes of freeing his master, but he's caught by Matsuri's earth-style jutsu, trapped at the mercy of Jura. In this moment, Jura spares Boruto's life, his curiosity about the world, which we later learn to be centered on love, overriding his instinct to consume the Otsutsuki before him to grow a divine tree. "You were lucky," Jura informs him.

The second time Boruto avoids certain death is after he works with Sarada to kill Hidari and obtain his Thorn Bulb. Doing so informs Jura that Boruto knows far too much about the Shinju, and his life must be forfeit for their safety. Using a Biju Sniper Shot, he hits Boruto in the torso, avoiding any vital organs, but incapacitating him. But just as he's about to deliver a killing blow, Mamushi shows up to inform Jura that Boruto has an accomplice. Thus, Boruto must stay alive long enough for the source of his information to be revealed, so they both can be eliminated.

It's after this encounter that Jura calls Boruto lucky for a second time: You are a truly lucky man. It's as if the heavens are decreeing that you remain alive. Perhaps this is some divine intervention.

This is objectively a strange thing for a newly-born tree person to say, especially considering that he seems to have some innate or learned knowledge of the Otsutsuki, the alien gods in Boruto. Appealing to the idea of heaven and the divine certainly suggests belief in a higher power, one that rules over the fate of man and Shinju alike.

Numerous theories have been floated to explain this panel. Perhaps Boruto has the favor of the ascended alien-god Shibai, or perhaps Jura was detecting the influence of Koji Kashin's shinjutsu ability Prescience in Boruto actions. Additionally, readers are still awaiting the Jougan reveal and the latent powers that could be lurking inside out main character.

However, the third and most recent time Boruto has escaped certain death presents an additional possibility for the overriding force protecting him, one perfectly in line with the themes of the series: love. Just as Boruto is about to receive a Biju bomb headshot, Kawaki appears and puts an end to Jura's pesky eye by stabbing it out of his head.

Why did Kawaki agree to Boruto's plan for their team up? The answer comes later while Jura is interrogating him: it's love. The Shinju muses that he didn't expect Kawaki to show up and protect Boruto being that the only thing in the world he wants to protect is Naruto. In Kawaki's eyes, he can see that he's still protecting something, the safety of Lord Seventh. Even though Kawaki says he "doesn't give a crap about love," we know that it's Naruto's love that inspired Kawaki to protect him.

We see the divine force of love affecting fate in another way as well. When Kawaki shows up in the Sand, Koji's visions of the future reset, revealing possibilities that had never emerged before. Let's take a look at how the futures change due to Kawaki's actions.

Koji's initial visions are full of death and destruction, focusing largely on the boys. He sees a future in which Kawaki lost Naruto during the Isshiki fight and, thus, allowed the world to be destroyed. He saw a future in which Kawaki killed both Boruto and Sarada during their confrontation on Hokage Rock before being defeated by Code and, again, ending the world. But what happens when he's willing to work with Boruto for the sake of protecting Naruto rather than fighting against him? The future changes branches off into possibilities beyond any Koji has ever seen, pulling in a greater cast of characters who are also fighting to protect others due to love.

We see Daemon confronting Mamushi to protect his sister, Eida; Sarada standing up against Hidari to free her father; Inojin who already once gave up his life to save Himawari, Himawari facing someone, perhaps Jura, in her quest to be like her father and brother, and, as she said in the first chapter of TBV, help the outsider Boruto. The brothers working together literally changes the fate of the world.

What does this have to do with the divine protection that Jura notices surrounding Boruto? As Naruto said back in chapter 29 of Boruto: Naruto Next Generations (NNG), the essence of chakra is that it's a binding force that connects people, Boruto to Sarada, Himawari to Hinata, Naruto to Kawaki, and according to Naruto, it's these connections that can change the world. Similar to Kawaki telling Jura that he doesn't give a crap about love, Kawaki says he doesn't really understand chakra, but in chapter 24 of TBV, we see how those connections change fate in real time, the threads of chakra connecting people shifting fate itself.

After the Omnipotence swap happened, Boruto tells Momoshiki: You should know that I never for a second considered this as losing everything, Momoshiki. I've got flowing inside me the blood of my dad, the Seventh Hokage Uzumaki Naruto. My mom's Hyuga blood, too. And my granddad was the Fourth Hokage. And most importantly, I'm a Will of Fire ninja.

Despite losing everything, Boruto didn't lost his connections, to his family or his friends. We see this in his actions in TBV, the way he treats Mitsuki, Konohamaru, and the village itself, telling them during his interrogation that he doesn't see them as enemies. It's these connections that protect him, the love he has for others, the love others have for him. Even when he seems to have nothing from the perspective of others, he's cocooned in the love he's received in his lifetime, something that can never be taken away from him.

Jura claims that Boruto is lucky, and he is. Despite the ravages of the past three years, he's still benefiting from the love he was given in his childhood, just as Kawaki is still suffering from the lack of it despite now being the "Hokage's son." The binding force of chakra is what continues to protect Boruto from Jura, giving him the opportunity to survive and share that protection with others as he focuses on his quest to save the world from destruction.