"Why Me? The Uchiha Enigma and The Uzumaki story "

Chapter 1: A demons deal

A kunai headed straight for a familiar silhouette, striking its target with deadly aim. The figure triumphantly "poofed" away, leaving a shockingly familiar shadow smirking. The clone revealed a hole in the ground, and the shadow planned what to do next as felt his opponent's presence underneath him. He jumped back and initiated the seals for a fire technique.

"Katon: Grand Fireball Jutsu!" the figure whispered as he gathered chakra in his mouth and released it in form of a great fireball. Naruto would have been burned to ashes, but the number one hyperactive ninja had one more trick up his sleeves. The Naruto the shadow attacked was a clone, the real Naruto was still underground waiting, and now he saw his chance to finish the battle. Jumping from the ground, he threw a blind uppercut, hoping to connect. There was connection all right, but it was the shadow that made the hit. With his eyes activated, he could read all of Naruto's moves and he easily saw through the shadow clone. The Uchiha caught Naruto in a full blast of an altered mangekyo. Sneering, the ninja stood before his fallen opponent wondering why this stranger attacked him.

Naruto's Dream:

Naruto awoke to the sound of a waterfall, the first thing he saw was a beautiful goddess smiling at him and she was looking at him with lustrous lavender eyes. But just as Naruto got closer, she started moving farther and farther away from Naruto. Naruto, not wanting the goddess to leave him, started chasing after her, only to find himself surrounded in complete darkness, falling for an eternity. He watched the world's nightmare as he falls and suddenly, he finds himself in a sea of red fur. He looks up, faithlessly hoping that when he looks up he will see the woman in his dreams, but he looks up to find his heart stop beating. A look of despair was in his eyes as a sinister serpent strangled his best friend. A mutilated Sasuke utters out a final message to Naruto.

"Na-Naru-to, I've al-ways hated you, you worthless piece of—" and before he could finish his sentence, the snake devoured the traitor of team seven.

Naruto ran, trying to escape, but he finds himself being crushed by a fox's paw, he looks up and finds himself staring in the eyes of the kyuubi. The giant biju held Naruto by his feet and put him over his open mouth, and then he dropped Naruto to a never-ending abyss.

End dream.

"Baka," Two evil eyes stared at a figure on the floor.

"Wake up, baka, wake up!" Two huge claws started to shake the bars that held it prisoner.

"Tsk…hurry and wake up dobe." The biju got impatient and sent a mass of chakra to wake up the unconscious boy.

"Ughh…Where- Where am I?" Naruto wakes up and finds himself in an all too familiar place.

"You died and went to hell," the fox smirked at his own joke, "Baka, you almost died and was sealed here"

"Sealed?!?!? What the hell does that mean?!?!" Naruto panicked. Sasuke's brother, Itachi, was back and no doubt he was there to destroy Konoha. He couldn't afford being "sealed" in his mind right now.

"Tsk, truth be told, you got lucky. I remember that chakra signature, and if he didn't spare your sorry ass you wouldn't be alive right now." The ancient demon remarked.

"What the hell are you talking about?! Stupid fox! That was Itachi Uchiha, the man who murdered every member of the Uchiha clan!" Naruto was now fully lost and getting desperate, what the hell was Itachi planning?

"Itachi? Well, whoever that is, it's not the guy you faced. The ninja you fought is no other than Jinpachi Uchiha, the man who created the opening for Yondaime to use his seal on me. And he is the very first Uchiha to use the different version of the mangekyo sharingan."

"But, Itachi killed every member of his clan…right?" Naruto asked, unsure whether to trust the sinister fox.

"Whenever a village is on the verge of being totally wiped out, the kage allows clans with powerful and useful kekkei genkai to evacuate the village in order to rebuild it. So it would make sense for this clan to send out members." The fox explained; it was hard not to laugh seeing the look on the kid's face. He couldn't believe that the stupid kid standing before him held him prisoner. He didn't like the kid, but Naruto had guts; asking him for "rent" all the time. This kid, hmm. He's pretty interesting, I bet his life is interesting too, I bet he'll accept my deal, thought the great fox.

"Tell you what kid, I'll make you a deal. I'll train you to become the best damn ninja ever in exchange for you senses," asked kyuubi.

"My senses? What do you mean? And besides what could you teach me? And I still don't know what being sealed means!" Naruto was getting impatient he needed to get out and make sure this "Jinpachi" was not really Itachi.

"Sigh, your sealed in here, meaning your mind and soul is trapped inside. You're physically alive but your heart has stopped beating, making you look dead. You could be stuck like this for 2 days, at that time you'll die from not enough liquid," the kyuubi was wondering if he should have mentioned the deal to such a huge baka.

"So…I'll only be here for a day?" Naruto asked.

"Nope, one day in the outside world is equivalent to one year in here," the demon was pleased to see the fear in Naruto's eyes, "Anyways, well baka? Wanna make the deal?"

"NANI?! I'm stuck here for a YEAR?! HELL NO! DAMN! WHAT IF THAT BASTARD LEAVES ME OUT HERE FOR TWO DAYS?! CRAP!" Naruto was panicking like Kakashi-sensei waiting for the new release of Icha-Icha paradise.

"Relax dobe, I'm sure someone is gonna see you," the kyuubi was now getting annoyed.

"Stupid fox! I'm in the Uchiha district; it's been deserted for years…No one has been here ever since. I am the only one that visits." Naruto said this with a sad tone in his voice. He came only to figure out more about his best friend, trying to find something to bring back some humanity in him.

"Tsk…that's one hell of a dilemma kid. Well, if you go through my training…" the demon trailed off looking murderously at Naruto. Naruto sat down in his serious position with a serious thinking face on, mumbling to himself the best plans to get out.

"Hey, baka…you will never escape without my help," the kyuubi looked like he was about to rip Naruto's head off.

"…Then I guess I have no other choice," Naruto looked at the fox with defiance. "Tell me about this deal fox"

"This deal will allow me to feel everything your senses feel, be it the sweet taste of a cake; the sound of bird chirping; the fragrant smell of flowers and so on and so forth. In exchange, your senses will be heightened and I will train you for the time your in here. If you aren't released by the first day, I'll train you before you run out of fluid. Well? Deal?" the kyuubi looked shocked to see Naruto thinking deeply.

"I'll still be able to use my senses and feel from them right?" asked Naruto, making sure there was no loophole for the fox to jump through.

"Yes," responded the fox. If the kid says yes, it'll be like he was free in the world again. Sure, he wouldn't be able to get out, but unbeknownst to Naruto, the fox was actually going to fuse part of his soul into Naruto's.

"Hmm…what will you be teaching me?" Naruto asked.

"In here, your using your OWN chakra and not mine. So, I'll train you so you can acquire more chakra. After that, I'll teach you the basic ninjutsus of all the basic elements. Then, we will work on breaking the seal keeping you inside here," the kyuubi said. The kyuubi noticed that Naruto was about to make his decision.

"Fine, I agree fox! Tell me what I have to do to confirm this deal." Naruto agreed only because Ero-sennin wasn't teaching him squat.

"Good, now just like in any summon contract, sign with your blood on the seal." Explained the kyuubi.

Naruto did as he was told and moments after he collapsed.