"Maybe. I'll try to figure out housing..."

"Where else would they put me?"

"Might try to push to have you stay with a jounin - though that'd be - unorthodox? It's more likely they'd have us both with Kakashi or someone. Depends on enough it's hard to speculate."

Elieyha nods.

And dinner finishes. 

He leaves most of his things in Naruto's room, sleeps on the couch.

The next morning, they're called to debrief at the Hokage Tower, which escaped relatively unscathed.

His story hasn't really changed, though he goes into reasoning a bit more. He received orders to lead a group of genin to make sure the Suna genin didn't return. They discovered they were being pursued, and he fell back to ambush the pursuers. He didn't take any team members, because he believed they'd be more likely to complete the original mission with as close to a full set as possible, and because he didn't want to risk their lives past the mission's parameters. He was able to ambush the pursuers; they weren't able to significantly hit him at range, and were overconfident. He healed the injuries he received. 

When he caught up with his team, Elieyha's seal had slipped and Shukaku had manifested. He'd known that some sharingan can influence some Tailed Beasts, so he gambled he might be able to do something, and entered the seal. He wouldn't have been able to push Shukaku back if Elieyha hadn't wanted Shukaku to go away. He talked to Elieyha within the seal; she expressed no desire to actually fight with Shukaku's influence gone, and her main concern seemed to be that Suna would hunt her for disloyalty if she backed off. He believes she's a potential asset, and unlikely to lash out at anyone who doesn't try to kill her first. 

Naruto's report is consistent with that; he also doesn't mention the Nine Tails, or Sasuke entering his seal.

They're being separately, one at a time. Elieyha is called after the boys have both gone.

Kakashi shows up just after that.

"Let's walk and talk, shall we?"

"Sure. Both of us?"

"Mostly you, but Naruto can come along if he feels like it."

"Uh - I'll wait for Elieyha, I guess?"

He nods at Naruto, and then says to Kakashi, hands in his pockets, "Lead on."

They meander through the building up to the roof. Kakashi leans on the railing, looking out at the town.

"Have you heard much about what happened while you were out yesterday?"

"Not much. Naruto updated me on some of our friends."

"Well. It turns out the Kazekage was actually Orochimaru in disguise. He orchestrated the attack and tried to kill the Hokage. I used your spells to help drive him off and now the Hokage is talking about retiring again and naming me his successor."

...Of course. Why is he not surprised drama happened. "Congratulations?"

Kakashi makes a vague noise. "I don't want to be Hokage. But it's hard to say no to an old man lying in a hospital bed."

He nods. That's reasonable. "Can anyone else be Hokage?"

...Depending on what's wrong also possibly the cure spell could address it...

He sighs. "None of the clans can field a serious contender. Tsunade, maybe, if we could find her and convince her to come back."

"The medic Sannin?" He hums. "Not being in Konoha probably works against her, but." Also he has a lot more confidence in Kakashi as Hokage than someone he's never met, but he's sympathetic to Kakashi not wanting the position. "...You'd be good at it. I think. If you did become Hokage."

"I appreciate the vote of confidence. This is all mostly to say that if you have some reason to be more or less confident in our new jinchuuriki's defection than you're comfortable sharing with the wider village, I'd appreciate a heads-up because it might be relevant to me."

"- Shukaku is definitely not going to be a problem for not actually sharingan related reasons - the solution to Shukaku was that apparently in mindscape I have the powers I think I should have, so I put Shukaku under a binding. It'll break if Elieyha dies, if Elieyha chooses to break it, if I choose to break it, or if twelve years pass. I'm as confident in Elieyha herself as I've expressed, including that she won't want to break the binding. It'd take really powerful magic to lift the binding outside of those cases, so I have no idea if anyone else here would be able to break it."

"Naruto also had been using the Nine Tail's chakra, one tail that was verging on two. I went into his seal, but just talked the Nine Tails into backing off. He said he knows how to be patient and would wait and see what I do."

"I also have the appearance I think I should have in mindscape so Naruto and Elieyha both know at least part of the thing."

"Do you think you can trust her with it?"