"There is not."

And even if it were in her power to show him something he would genuinely enjoy rather than feeling bittersweet about, he certainly would not give her the leverage.

"...Alright.  Let me know if there is something you want to see, 'kay?  I may be keeping you stuck in here but - that doesn't mean I have to be like....how most of Konoha treats me, about it."

And she resurfaces from the seal-space, feeling...

Honestly, mentally exhausted and wanting to see a friendly adult, but it's not like the Hokage could or should drop everything he's doing to see to her.

She's just going to wander around, instead, or something.

Maybe go stare at the Uchiha for a while, because, like...they're cursed apparently, and that's weird?  They're, like, occasionally nice to her.  She doesn't get how that's got anything to do with curses.

They certainly don't look cursed! They're not exactly universally beloved, but that seems easily explained by the fact that they're police officers, and many of the shopkeepers seem happy about their presence in pretty much the same way they aren't happy about hers.

...Sheeeee now has more questions to ask Hokage-sama when she has a chance.

Like 'Why are all our police Uchiha and nobody else is police', and 'did you know that apparently they're cursed, I didn't get much out of Kyubi-san before he got tired of answering my questions but like apparently they're totally cursed', and '...wait a minute, who's Indra, again?  Like he's totally gotta be important if he can curse the Uchiha...'

...Also 'when was this Indra supposedly involved in something that cursed the Uchiha', for that matter.

Maybe she will have to ask an Uchiha something.

She's not sure.

Just walking up to one at random and going 'Hi, uh, do you know why the demon fox said you're cursed, and who's Indra anyway'...is a bad plan.

It's just the only one she has right now.  Well, the only one that she can actually pull off without knowing nin stuff.  Sneaking into their archives or whatever might tell her things but she can't do that yet.  ...Not that she's going to do this, either, it's just the only plan she could make.

There aren't a lot of ways for Naruto to get news. She has no parents to tell her, no circle of friends to breathlessly talk about what they heard from their parents, no older acquaintances inclined to gossip uncaring of who hears them, and certainly doesn't have a subscription to any of the newspapers permitted to publish in Konoha. Despite all that, for once she's scarcely delayed behind those who do, if only because it would be practically impossible not to hear about it. It's not every day that Orochimaru of the Legendary Three, beloved war hero and suspected by some of being the future Godiame, flees the village pursued by Anbu. It's not very often that someone successfully escapes the Anbu, either. The day after the it's hard to go five minutes without someone espousing their own guesses as to what could have happened, and the lack of official story only feeds the flames of rumors.

You presume she can't eavesdrop like a talented amateur.  She's a ninja.

...Anyway.  That's...

Odd.

She hopes the Hokage is going to show up soon; she has some followup questions.

The hokage does not show up to visit her promptly! Perhaps more worrying is his lack of public appearances in general; the day after the attack he made a speech in public asking people to remain calm and report anything suspicious to the ANBU, so he's presumably still alive, but the Hokage tower has been on lockdown and he hasn't been seen on his usual walking route or sitting down to restaurants either.

Rumors start filtering around about Orochimaru having betrayed Konoha for a Iwa or Kumo, about him having murdered some of his fellow Konoha ninja, about him having done unethical experimentation, about him having been a pedophile - the more disturbing, the more popular. To Naruto's good fortune, at least none of those rumors seem to involve the fox.

That's...

Actually mixed news, really.

...Damn it all, if she wants information she's going to have to either sneak into Hokage Tower, or tell somebody a secret.

...She's gonna ask the Kyuubi for advice on which.

This is probably a stupid plan, but some advice is probably better than no advice, and clearly the Kyuubi knows chakra stuff!

So after there is no Sarutobi Hiruzen plucking her out of the audience on the day of the speech, she settles into a thinking pose that is also a meditative one, and pulls herself into the seal-space.

"...Kyuubi-san.  You heard about the Orochimaru thing, right?  I...can't see how it couldn't be connected to the tip you gave me, which is good, but...

"I dunno.  I feel like it's not over.  I mean not even accounting for the bit where Orochimaru is absolutely going to go missing-nin.  Which.  That's.  Bad.  If we run into him at some point, and he's not mind-controlled - if he did a tenth of what the gossip says, uh...You can probably eat him if you want.  I certainly won't stop you.

"But...

"It doesn't make sense.  The sort of stuff you're saying he would have had to have done, to have the Sharingan - and mokuton! -

"That takes time, doesn't it?  And the Sannin are - were - pretty busy with stuff that doesn't seem like it could possibly work around an evil-science schedule.

"...So I guess what I'm asking is if you wanna help me make sure Konoha chased off the right bad guy.  Since he hurt you too.

"Right now I'm thinking there's two ways to go about this.  One of them is figuring out if the Uchiha or their records can narrow down potential Sharingan thefts.  The other is pestering the Hokage.  But both of them are gonna need me to be better at sneaking than I am right now and they won't let me look at the useful books yet.  So, uh.  I was maybe hoping you might want to help.  Which is silly, because you don't want to, ne?  But I feel like I'd've really messed up if it turns out you do want to help with this for whatever reason.  So...do you?"

"If your village is foolish enough to tear itself apart without even involving its enemies, I don't see why I should help you stop it."

"Because Konoha wants to stop the people who ...genjutsu'd? you, about as much as you do - and they can't do that if they're busy infighting."

"None of these fools have the slightest chance of managing it even if they weren't, either. He fought your precious Yondiame - do you really think his predecessor will have better luck?" 

The toad managing it would be... not impossible, but he has no intention of crediting that blasphemous fool in the slightest. He'll simply have to defeat the damnable Uchiha himself when next he wins his freedom.

"Oh, probably not alone he couldn't.  But there's a few things that are different about being ambushed while your wife's giving birth and ambushing someone who has no reason to believe anyone even knows what they look like with a squad of ninja that could probably give you a run for their money at their back.  Teamwork!  It solves problems!  And we have a Sealmaster.  Not to mention a bunch of angry Uchiha, for what that's worth; they hate eye thieves."

That's hardly the most compelling pitch he's ever heard - for one thing, he hates the rest of the Uchiha very nearly as much as the one who last stole his freedom, and for another he's far from convinced that such a force could succeed regardless of his help. It's not as though the Yondiame or his wife weren't seal masters themself, with plenty of time to secure the location for Naruto's birth ahead of time, and neither they nor any of the squads of Anbu assisting them had proven up to the task. Still, it's not as though he has much to lose here, and if he can arrange things so that the masked man dies dealing Konoha an injury, he would count it as a victory.

"What, then, are you proposing?"

"..." There's a part of her that's already spitting out plans, but...  "I, uh, I don't exactly know yet; I didn't expect I'd get this far.  But...  If nothing else, your help in figuring out the assassin's - means, motive, and opportunity? - could go a long way.  This stuff doesn't normally come out of nowhere but Konoha was surprised.  Which is, frankly, scary as - whatever - because we're supposed to be ninja.  Knowing what the enemy's planning to do before they do it is, like, the whole hat of being...whatever it is ninja are supposed to be.  Not the flashy power contests."  She's positively dripping with loathing of her own upon the subject.  "...Like it's cool that, say, Senju Hashirama could grow entire forests, or whatever, but...

"It's not sneaky at all.  And we're supposed to be Hidden Villages!  Do people not know how to read?!"

"It's naught but a reflection of their arrogance; as though a village of ninja could be hidden anyway without their twisted karma serving as a beacon for anyone with eyes to see. As for the motive, is it not obvious? There is nothing that you humans would not do for power."

"...I mean, the power to do something about shit you don't like is something I'd spend a lot on, like, I want to put a stop to Bloody Mist someday, not that I really expect I'll get the chance - but...What's the point of power without purpose?  If I'm...gonna be Hokage some day, or something - I gotta know what the heck I'm going to do with the entire village's lives placed in my hands.  Or else it's just...

"Pointless to pretend I have the position - that the position is even one worth having, if it's something easily occupied by nothing in a person-shape.

"I just don't get why people...

"...I mean, I'm clearly talking about something you have a lot more experience with than I do.

"...it's hard to not do that, I mean, I'm a kid.  Even if I'm 'mature for my age' precisely because of these people and my trying to keep up with the way people treat you.  But that's something you really hate too, huh.  People who just...

"Value their belief in their superiority above all reason and make other people's lives awful because of it.  Not even because of the demon thing most of the time.  I saw someone being mean to - I mean, didn't you see that shopkeeper being awful to old lady Washimoto last week?  Before I distracted them.  ...I should probably be more concerned about that being a thing my existence does to people than I actually am, but I guess it did something good this time...."

He doesn't have any similar concerns; for all that he is far stronger than any human, he benefits from the surety of purpose that comes from having wrestled with these questions centuries ago.

"Power to do something, certainly, but time and time again mortals have shown they lack the slightest regard about what sort they use. No matter what goal they tell themselves they have set out to achieve, you'll find humans are willing to embrace whatever methods they think will supply themselves that power, and ninjas are among the worst of them. No, if you wish to determine who your mysterious traitor is, you'll need to focus on the other two prongs - who was capable of it, and who wouldn't have been caught trying."

"Mhm.  Which is why, and I'm sure you're about to tell me that this is a terrible idea, but - I think we should probably talk to the Uchiha.  Because it's their spooky eyes that fucked us over, but - clearly not by their whim.  So the question is, whose eyes does this guy have to begin with?"

They're right, it is a terrible idea. Unfortunately, he's knows all too well that being aware something is a terrible idea is not enough by half to stop a human from doing it so long as they can convince themselves their other options are worse. Still, if there's one benefit to the damnable shinigami's bindings, it's that the isolation they enforce offers him some measure of protection against the eyes of misery. Not so good as being able to slay the offending ninja, perhaps, but a protection all the same. 

"His eyes possessed the power of the kaleidoscope, but there are no shortage of such fools to have come from that accursed people."

"...The power of what now?  There's more than their copy-nin...  Stuff?  And the genjutsu affinity..."

She looks rather taken aback.

"The power of the kaleidoscope. A Uchiha who slays their own kin may burn their life from both ends in exchange for temporary power."

There's no hiding the disgust in his words.

"...Okay, those words made slightly more sense than just the kaleidoscope thing, but also, what?  How?  Why?  What does it even do?  Why does it necessarily involve kinslaying?  ...How the expletive did they even find that out to begin with?  The more I hear about this, the more I am convinced that they are absolutely cursed, because what in the Sage's name is wrong with these people's magic eyes?"

"If you're still so eager to talk with the Uchiha, you can ask them yourself."

"Kyūbi-san, what I'm eager to do is track down the person that killed my mother and father and hurt you.  Or - no.  Not even eager, really.  Just - terrified enough that they'll come back for another go at - whatever it was they wanted your power for - that any knowledge of our enemy feels like hope that I'll get to have a future, even if I shouldn't let myself have any such thing.  I'm, like, six.  I know nothing about, like, anything chakra-related, except the sort of basic 'it exists' things; they're 'not for little kids' according to the librarians and I'm not good enough to get around them yet.  I'm not gonna survive an S-ranked nin's farts if they decide they want me dead, and, well, they probably will, eventually.  ...and...  ...I don't know why they did this at all, but...I doubt they have good intentions if they felt the need to compel you into something you'd have done anyway, and they'd have known you would have done anyway - given what even the least informed people know of bijuu.  It's just that I think that the path to enough information about this guy to actually know him as more than what you remember from one incident - enough to track them down and put a stop to whatever it is they wanted a mind-whammied bijuu for - is gonna have to go through the Uchiha clan leadership, with the angle of the eyes, or the Hokage, for...I hope he has something... neither of whom I can even talk to right now, Hokage-sama being sequestered and me not even knowing any Uchiha, and...I need help.  You're the only person I can think of who might give it."  ...She blinks back the beginnings of a full-on bawl.  "...I don't even know why I believe in you that much, but apparently I do."

"...Sorry about that," she finishes, with a distressing amount of sincerity.

Despite all his centuries of experience, he doesn't exactly have a script for dealing with crying children. He would kill them when they were in the way, yes, but outside of him meting out judgment people usually knew to keep their children well enough away from him. He doesn't like her, much less enough to help her for her own sake, but there's nothing to be gained by being cruel either; instead he sits there in a somewhat awkward silence, thinking.

"There is another option," he finally allows. "You could leave. Even without releasing me, my power is more than sufficient to destroy any who would stop you. Simply go far enough that none of those who seek you could find you."

And if Konoha resists her leaving strongly enough he gets to decimate it on the way out, well. Perhaps he could multitask.