Yo everybody! Recently I've begun watching the English dub of Naruto Shippuden. I had stopped watching the English dub after the end of the Sasuke Retrieval Arc. I was never one for the fillers. And it rejuvenated my muse for Naruto stories. I've come up with four ideas for a Naruto story, but I cannot decide which one I should write. So I've decided to do a preview of each one and hear what my fans have to say.

I'm putting a general overview of each story here, in addition to the four previews that I will be posting. But there will be some more info with each preview.

First Story: The single oldest Naruto story I've had since I started reading and watching Naruto, but I hadn't considered doing until I started writing Gundam Seed: A Retelling. And like that, it would stay more or less close to the canon, just with my OCs added to the mix, including my OC Team Seven member, Kenshi Mitsurugi from my A New Life series. Ever since I started the series, people had asked me if I was going to do a story with Kenshi in Team Seven. Originally, I had been turned off by other OC Team Seven member stories, which I found to be loaded with Mary Sue OCs, and I feared that it wouldn't be well received as a result. But through my experiences with other stories and OCs, I feel much more confident that I could truly do it right.

Now, as I said, this one will stay close to the canon, which means that Sasuke will leave and Team Seven will split. If you want something that jumps wildly from the canon, see the below.

Second Story: One of the first and greatest of Naruto fanfics I've ever read was Lithius Amarantinos's Nine Demon Songs. A truly great story that was sadly stopped and deleted. For those of you who never read it, the story was an AU where eight out of the nine Jinchuriki were members of the Konoha Twelve. All of Team Seven, Team Gai, as well as Shikamaru and Hinata held a Tailed Beast.

My idea isn't quite like that. Instead, just the members of Team Seven are Jinchuriki. Sakura with the Six Tailed Slug, Sasuke with the Seven Tailed Horned Beetle and of course, Naruto with the Nine Tailed Fox. Like NDS, it would begin in the Chunin Exams, where they first discover that both Sasuke and Sakura are Jinchuriki. Though I don't think I'll be that into pairings as LA was, at least until after the time skip and they're older.

Third Story: This is one I developed after reading numerous stories where Naruto is exiled/banished after the Sasuke Retrieval Arc. Basically, instead of just Naruto being exiled, all of Team Seven flees Konoha. In short, Naruto defeats Sasuke at the VotE, humbling Sasuke, leaving him to think that maybe Naruto was right. Naruto brings him back, Sakura is filled with emotions, thanking and apologizing to Naruto. However, things begin to conspire against Naruto (Coughs. Danzo. Coughs.) and he's forced to flee from the village. A few days later, so do Sakura and Sasuke. The three disappear and Tsunade is eventually forced to declare them Missing-Nin. Three travel together and train, without any of the Sanin teaching over the time skip, changing their abilities.

Fourth Story: This one has had a number of different iterations, before I settled on this final version. As Team Seven is leaving Wave, they're ambushed by ninja from the sinister Yamigakura village, the Village Hidden in Darkness. Intending to break Kakashi for intelligence for the upcoming attack on Konoha during the Chunin Exams. In order to do this, they chain and lock Kakashi in room with monitors, forcing him to watch as they force his genin into slave labor, torture them, and even perform sadist experiments on them, such as testing the limits of Naruto's regenerative powers. After several months, they manage to escape from the village and reach Konoha, weeks before the Chunin Exam, both physically and mentally scarred from their experiences, but much, much closer as a result, removing their infighting and crushes.

I've also been considering having some of the experiments bloodline related, potentially granting Sakura, and maybe Sasuke and Naruto, bloodline abilities or bloodline-like abilities. For Sakura, the two abilities I had been considering the most of potentially giving her, is either having her physically growing a twin out of her back, like Sakon and Ukon, with Inner Sakura becoming her own being, or having her grow hand mouths like Deidara. The only for Sasuke I've been considering (out of the canon stuff, I have a few made up bloodlines I've been considering using) is to have become like Kidomaru, a third eye on his forehead and two extra sets of arms. It spawned from this absolutely random image I had once in my head, where Sasuke was getting beaten back his opponent in the Preliminary matches of the Chunin Exam, having his headband knocked off, revealing the third eye. Then he tears his four other arms through his shirt, revealing them, and just the reactions from the other Leaf genin as kept it lodged in my head, especially Ino. I can see her with this horrified expression, shouting, "What happened to my Sasuke-kun!" Regardless, if any of them gain these new abilities, it will time and experimentation before they can begin really mastering things, as opposed to those stories where they (Naruto) gain a bloodline and masters it rather quickly. Too quickly for my liking.

Now, I could also merge the first story (or at least elements of it) into the third or fourth as well. But I don't want to for the second. My story for that one won't allow it.

Okay, now I only have two of the previews ready at the moment. Read them and tell me what you like, what you hate, your suggestions, your ideas, etc. Once all four previews are done, I'll put a poll on my profile on which one I should write.

Oh, and before I forget,

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or anything relating to it beyond my OCs and custom made techniques.