...Okay, now she's crying, for real.

"...I think there are some problems with that plan," she says, when she's gotten most of the tears and hitched-silent sobs and sniffles over with, "but...thank you.  For offering it.  Especially when you really don't have to - probably shouldn't - let me borrow your power, if I'm going to go all missing-nin about it.  ...If things got so bad here I couldn't stay, if it was Konoha that was the real problem, I'd probably just release you straight out, to be honest.  If Konoha had so broken from the Will of Fire that I stopped believing in it.  But...  Running away from this problem in particular can't solve it, because we don't know where the scary guy came from or where he went, and I don't even know how to break a genjutsu if he catches me somewhere.  Let alone deal with whatever else the eyes can do.  Or the mokuton.  The only way out of this seems like it's gotta be through.  I just...need to figure out how I'm gonna get through.  's complicated to talk to important people when you're their dirty little secret at best, for the Hokage, and, like, no relation whatsoever, on the other hand.  I could maybe try 'I think I might have learned things that the wider Konoha maybe shouldn't know, and want to be sure I don't carelessly spread clan secrets' to get my foot in the door..."  She seems to actually have something like a plan, now.  "Which, by the way, thank you for telling me.  I think it's really going to help.  Even if it's not secret, it's gonna...Look better, if I actually believe what I'm saying."

He could break the sharingan's genjutsu on her, and indeed any other genjutsu he pleased, but it would require her to grant him more freedom than she has and for him to have a reason to do it. Moreover, making such an offer would be if anything more reason for her to go to the Uchiha, and there's still a chance she'll think better of it. 

"Very well."

"...Thank you, again, Kyūbi-san, for your counsel.  It's probably not something you care about much, but...you really did help."

And now, it is time for her to find a vaguely important-looking Uchiha.  While avoiding eye contact.  She's pretty sure that's a thing with Sharingan-genjutsu, for whatever reason.

It's not that easy to just walk into the Uchiha compound, but even with Naruto being who she is there's an easy guess for why a little kid would be wandering around staring at the ground. One of the Uchiha on gate duty appears next to her in a swirl of leaves.

"Hey kid, are you lost?"

"...mmmno.  I don't really know where I should be going, but that's not being lost.  But I was hoping I could speak to someone?"

"Sure, what do you need?"

It's not really part of his job description at the moment, but what the heck, it's not like he's busy.

"I'm - not really sure yet.  And I'm not sure how much of what I'd need to tell you to explain should be kept private.  But there's probably definitely some of that.  I don't think any specifics of Sharingan power levels are public."

"And you think you know something you shouldn't?"

It's a bit of a weird phrasing, especially referring to it as a Sharingan's power level, but maybe someone blabbed about something without paying attention to their surroundings or something; it wouldn't be the first time, though it's not exactly common. Or maybe the kid's just wrong, or playing pretend, but humoring them doesn't really harm anything.

"Mm.  I think I know something that maybe the rest of Konoha doesn't need to.  Whether I need or don't need to know is a more complicated question.  Thus the wanting to talk to somebody."

That's an even weirder way to phrase it.

"Alright, how about we get out of the street, and then you can tell me all about it."

He's not going to bring them into the compound proper, but there's a little room for the guards to sit while they're on gate duty with one way glass out and it should be plenty to assuage them of whatever they're worried about.

Sure, that's reasonable.  Even if she's gonna get hives from her nerves at being in a secondary location.  ...Not literally.

"...Does 'the power of the kaleidoscope', in connection to the Sharingan, mean anything to you?"

Oh, yeah. That would explain it, wouldn't it. If he goes to his boss with this they're going to want him to figure out who was being an idiot about it, but it can sometimes take a little doing to pry that kind of info out of kids.

"Yeah, I know what you mean. What exactly did you hear?"

"Mm.  Not much, really, the broad details of what the person speaking believed the ...activation conditions... were, and that it drains the bearer's life-force in exchange for power.  But you do recognize the importance of it.  ...Which suggests that someone who has made themself an enemy of Konoha having those eyes...would be, uh, bad, right?"

That's not completely accurate, but it's close enough to the truth that he's willing to bet the kid knows the real activation conditions. The Uchiha reputation has enough problems as it is without their comrades getting paranoid about them killing friends or teammates for power. And the enemy of Konoha bit... whichever idiot cousin of his thought it was a good idea to fan those rumors again is in for a world of hurt.

"It would be. That's one of the reasons we're so strict with our own, since a Uchiha turning traitor would be even worse than a normal ninja doing it."

"...I have no reason to believe that any Uchiha clan member in good standing was involved in...the incident that involved that Sharingan.  I have some reason to believe that the eye or eyes in question may have been stolen, because the idea of one of Konoha's founding clans desiring to command widespread destruction of their village is honestly absurd.  And I'd really like to talk to someone who has the authority to go through the clan's records, about that.

"...I figure you must keep some, given the, uh," she makes a wide gesture, "general... everything, that people will apparently try, to steal a bloodline ability with."  ...She carefully doesn't-shudder.  "I would, if I was trying to keep the Sharingan in known hands.  At least of, well, whether anyone found the body."

"Those are pretty sensitive documents you're asking about, kid. Giving an outsider access would require direct permission of Fugaku-sama himself, and that's without getting into anyone who was on a classified mission where you'd need to somehow convince the Hokage."

It's need to know information, and frankly Naruto doesn't. There's also one obvious guess about where someone out to destroy the village would get a pair of Mangekyo Sharingan, and that one's in enough history books to make the records unnecessary.

"I promise you, though, we take it incredibly seriously - trust our own interests, if nothing else. Why don't you give me some more specifics on where you got your information, and I'll see about double checking things?"

"I wasn't thinking I'd rate access myself, no, just...  ...that it would help them narrow down some things.  ...And given what Hokage-sama is presently busy with, if I could actually ask him I bet we'd have it.  Not that I have a particular belief in a connection between the use of a particularly fancy Sharingan some years back, and the sudden betrayal of Orochimaru - but.  It's plausibly evidence one way or the other in that matter, as well as a potential lead on the actual culprit behind something else entirely.  ...That said, I don't know how much you're cleared to know about what I know."

Yes, he's aware that she's the Jinchuriki for the nine-tailed demon fox. Obviously. He'd have to be an idiot to somehow not be. That doesn't change the fact that telling Naruto about it would be an S ranked crime that would put him in a world of trouble, even if - or perhaps especially if - they already know. That said, he also doesn't want to have to tell his boss that he needs someone else to go interview a kid to learn who was telling them clan secrets.

"I'm an experienced Chunin, an officer in the KKB, and of course a member of the Uchiha clan." His eyes spin red with the Sharingan for a moment, though they fade to black immediately afterwards. "If someone has been sharing clan secrets that shouldn't have been, I'm cleared for any relevant investigation and arrests."

If it's someone in Anbu they might try to kick up a fuss, of course, but he almost hopes it is. They've been trying to claim the right to police themselves for a while, but anyone with a brain can see how bad an idea that is and putting an end to that nonsense would be satisfying for a lot of them.

She's staring at his ear as he shows off.

"...I don't think you could possibly arrest my source right now; their identity is... not one you're allowed to know, as far as those duties are concerned."  ...Even if everyone knows, and everyone knows everyone knows, and etcetera.

"...I suppose I can tell you that they do not, themself, have a Sharingan, nor the desire to possess one.  But I'm getting really tired of trying to talk around the metaphorical chakra beast in the room."  Somehow, she keeps a straight face through that line, despite the very literal chakra beast in the room, but her amusement at what she just said is probably obvious to the Kyuubi, if no-one else.  "So can we get to the point already?  Regardless of how I came to know this information about the Sharingan - does someone hostile to Konoha's interests, armed with a powerful tool of your bloodline, not concern the Uchiha Clan enough to even alert the clan's leadership?  Because as it is, I am rather concerned that this unknown enemy of ours will attempt to strike again; Sage knows I've no idea why they haven't tried again before now - and if they do, presently I won't even be informed of the potential threats, let alone remotely capable of posing any sort of obstruction to their goals, should they attempt to get at the source for the information I have, through me.  I'm quite sure that they would do that, to be clear.  The last time they tried, they did worse things besides."

Who could their source possibly be, such that covering them up by alluding to the Kyuubi seems like a sensible plan? Unfortunately he can't follow up on it himself, since they've made it clear they're not going to be cooperative and pressing them runs into the same village secret he's not allowed to reveal.

"Fugaku-sama is a very busy man, but I can assure you that he'll give a danger to the village his full attention."

"Which you're going to go tell him about now, right, Uchiha-san?  Since my concerns about what I need to keep secret have been dealt with, and right now what matters is what we can do to keep Konoha safe from that threat?  Perhaps if I knew the information would be put to use I could convince my source to divulge details of the threat that they, probably quite correctly, think would be pointless to tell to me."

She hits him with her best 'I Am Doing Something Important So Stop Wasting Everyone's Time' impression, to follow up - arms crossed, slight frown, tapping her foot at just this particular speed, tap tap tap tap tap...

She's waiting, impatiently.

She's a kid, and not even a particularly scary one to boot. Even Itachi wouldn't have had that much look trying it at her age, and as things stand her impression is more cute than convincing.

"I'm still on gate duty, kid; I'm not about to go running off. Besides, you haven't given me nearly enough to information to be worth interrupting Fugaku-sama with when he's at work."

Yeah, she expected that, but it was worth a try.  Sometimes people humor cute kids.

"...Well.  I can't give you any further information without an understanding of which secrets you are allowed to know.  So I will be going now, and perhaps if Hokage-sama approves it I can tell someone something sometime.  On the other hand, he's busy.  Getting that permission may take a while."

She's leaving now.  ...Unless?