(Valley of the End)

It had worked perfectly. The trap he set up, the tricks he used, all of it. The two Uchiha were open and his twin Rasengan were nanoseconds away from crushing the two men.

He felt the world shift right as he hit them both. The two men flew back and smashed into the ground creating a crater. Naruto stood panting for a bit before he slowly walked over to the edge of the hole the men lay in. Peering cautiously down at them he waited for any signs of movement. Madara crumbled into dust and blew away.

Naruto grinned. Madara might have been able to use some hand seals to sever his connection to his summoner, but Naruto had used a seal to sever his connection to Edo Tensei. One good hit was all it took to destroy him after that.

He carefully walked down to the other man keeping an eye on him to see if he was alive. When he made no moves Naruto quickly pulled out a kunai, coated it with wind chakra, and decapitated him. He then burned the remains.

He stretched with a grin on his face. "Finally. No more nutjobs trying to take over the world." He turned back to look at the waterfall and frowned, he wasn't standing in a valley anymore. Rather he was standing on level ground with a river passing through. The statues of Madara and Hashirama were also missing. "Did we destroy them in the fight?" He looked around but couldn't find evidence that they even existed. It was like the statues were never there.

He shrugged and headed back to where the others had been camped. "Time to tell everyone the good news."

When he reached the location of the camp he was confused and double checked his location. Instead of finding tents and a clearing he just found forest. He frowned and tried to dispel a genjutsu. When nothing happened he scratched his head and decided to head for Konoha.

By the time he reached where Konoha should be the sun was setting. Konoha wasn't there. He stood on a vast grassy plain with the Hokage mountain in front of him. There were no faces on it. "Where the hell is the forest? Where the hell are the Hokage's faces? Where the hell is Konoha?!" He shouted.

Naruto huffed and set camp. He needed to figure out what was going on. After finishing up and starting a fire he stared into it blankly, tossing logs on occasionally to keep it going. Halfway through the night he felt something stir in his stomach.

"Look up."

Naruto twitched. "Kurama? What's up?"

"Look. Up." He repeated.

Naruto looked up at the sky. "The sky, so what? Hey... where's the moon?"

Naruto heard a sigh coming from him. "I didn't want to admit it, but now there's no refuting it."

Naruto cocked his head to the side. "Didn't want to admit what?"

"How much you looked like him. Listen, this is the past. Before Konoha was founded. Before the moon was created by sealing the Jubi in it. We're in the past."

"So how do I go back?"

"I don't think you're meant to." Kurama muttered. "The beginning and the end. Kid, I think you're the Sage."

"You feeling alright? You already know I'm a sage. You wouldn't let me merge with the toads so I had to find a way around it, remember?"

"No, brat, not a sage. The Sage. The one that started it all. The one that defeated Jubi and created the moon. The one that gave the world the knowledge on how to use chakra."

"The Rikudō Sennin? I don't have the eyes, Kurama. I'm not him."

"I can feel it pulling me. You look just like him, maybe the eyes just haven't happened yet. Either way, I think your journey is just getting started, kid." Kurama's voice seemed to get softer as he talked. "Treat me well when you create me, old man."

"Hey! I'm not an old man! Kurama!" When there was no response he pulled his clothing out of the way to see the seal on his stomach fade away. He waited and nothing happened. He didn't die. There were no fireworks. He didn't even feel any different. It just faded away like it was never there.

Naruto sighed. "He did that on purpose." He picked up a nearby stick and poked at the fire listlessly. "So, what am I supposed to do?" Eventually he gave up thinking and collapsed backwards to fall asleep.

When he woke in the morning as the sun rose he grumbled and looked around. He had basically no gear left to speak of and his clothes had seen better days. His stomach growled loudly to remind him he had no food either.

"Uuuuugh. I guess I need to find a nearby town to get some food. New clothes and gear wouldn't hurt either..." With a plan he set out, hoping he would happen across a village of some sort.

Around noon he found thick black smoke rising into the sky and turned to investigate. He came across a village that was apparently under attack. People were running and screaming and doing their best to avoid the section of the village with burning buildings. As he made his way towards that section he saw the villagers gathering in a central building.

"Must be a major building for the village if they're all gathering there." He shook his head and continued on, he had to find the source of the disturbance and stop it first.

Reaching the burning section of the village he found a man in the middle of the street grunting. He could also hear the sounds of faint sobbing and whimpering. The man let out a sigh of satisfaction before tossing something to the side. Naruto looked over to find a woman covered in bruises and torn clothes with white trickling down between her legs.

He saw red and turned back to the man. "Who are you?!"

The man took his time fixing his pants before turning around. He was a bit shorter than average and overweight. His long black greasy hair hung to his shoulders. With a sneer he looked Naruto in the eye.

Naruto grit his teeth. "Rinnegan."

"Eh? I like that, I think I'll call 'em that from now on. It'll go well with the new title I've been thinking of, Rikudō Sennin."

"Like hell I'll let someone like you be known as the Rikudō Sennin," Naruto ground out.

The man laughed at him before raising a hand towards the building the villagers had gathered in. Shortly after the whole building was engulfed in flames and crushed. "And what's a little shit-nosed brat like you going to do about it?"

Naruto stared at the building as the people burned alive. He could hear the screams from here. He started to run when he heard something from behind.

"Whoops, don't want to forget about you," the slob of a man said, turning and killing the girl he had just raped.

Naruto spun around in time to see the girl's throat slit. His eyes burned. When he looked back at the man his eyes were purple with concentric rings.

"I'll never let someone as evil as you be known as the Rikudō Sennin. Even if I have to kill you."

"Oh, you have 'em too, huh? Let's see who's better," he sneered.

"This is your first time facing someone with these powers," Naruto stated, "I've fought against them before." He pulled out his last kunai and raised his free hand towards the man.

The overweight man hunkered down as though expecting an attack. "Banshō Ten'in." He found himself flying towards Naruto with wide eyes. The last thing he saw in his miserable life was the kunai flashing forwards seeking his heart.

A/N:

This one would probably be the hardest of the potential stories as I'd have to make up pretty much everything. New people, new places, new dangers and such. BUT, if it's what people really want to read I'll do it.

Chances are I won't be doing a preview for the fourth and final choice, simply because it would require far more to set up than these others. That's also the reason I could probably roll it in to either the Hyoton story or the Kyuubi story. Naruto decides for whatever reason that unifying the land is the way to peace. Sort of like Madara but without the crazy Sharingan on the moon bit. If you guys want to see Naruto rule over the Elemental Nations and want it to be a part of those two send me a pm or something. Or I suppose I can always create a new poll after I start those stories.

I'll leave the poll open until March 9th. Whenever I feel like closing it that day is when it ends and I'll start thinking seriously on whichever story wins.

Additional details and the poll are on my profile.