"Someone will find you for a followup."

...Well, they are ninja.

She'll give them a week before she resorts to more drastic measures.

Meanwhile, in the seal-space...

"...Well, that went a way.

"...I have just had a horrible and probably dangerous idea.  Which is to say, uh, is it possible for me to learn how you - sensed - the Sharingan and the mokuton?  Or is that a 'being the Kyuubi-no-Kitsune' thing?  Because if I could...

"...Basically, the idea is that I go hunting for evidence of bloodline limits on people they shouldn't be.  All sneaky-like.  Because nobody's gonna expect that from someone who isn't even an Academy student yet - let alone the functionally-clanless me."

It's not just possible for her; chakra was always meant to be a tool for connecting with others, and extending that to finding them over short distances is one of the easier possible tricks. It would require diligence and practice to get anything out of, but no particular inherent ability. Unfortunately, like everything else humans have done with the Chakra they got their hands on being able to track people is a potent weapon of war, and he has no intention of helping with that in the slightest. 

"I am the most powerful sensor in the world, child. Do you think if it were that simple your village would not have found them already?"

"I don't know if they've thought to look.  I know there's, like, sensor-nin, but - I don't know.  It feels like it should be obvious, but a lot of things I think are obvious...  Aren't, obvious?  Apparently?  ...I don't know."

She slumps a bit, rather obviously dejected.  "I just...

"I can't do anything.  The village is all but on fire, we're both in danger from someone who wants who-knows-what with your power, and I'm just this - leaf on the wind, helplessly blown about by the forces of the powerful.  I want to help - to be more than this useless dead weight only valuable because of my being attached to you - and they won't even let me learn how I could, yet.  The closest I can get is anatomy textbooks, and I feel like that's practically accidental."

"I wouldn't be surprised. It's the only discipline shinobi learn that isn't completely useless, so it only makes sense that after learning how to weaponize it they stopped paying it the slightest attention."

She...  Blinks, surprised at the declaration.

"...What is chakra for, then?  I could argue that there's utility enough in earth jutsu for constructive purposes, and goodness knows Senju Hashirama practically built half of Konoha with mokuton, but...  You have something in mind."

"To know and see yourself and others as they truly are, and in achieving Samadhi bring an end to conflict."

She blinks.

"...I wish I'd had someone here to witness you saying that, because given your past actions if I just tell the Hokage that that's what you think chakra is for, he's gonna think I've lost it.  But I believe you.

"...Explains why you're so good at - what was it, ninshu?  Too.  ...What's Samadhi?"

"Samadhi is one of the eight steps on the path of enlightenment laid out by the Sage."

"...Huh.  With all the vague reverence we have for him, you would think I'd have heard of all that before.  ...I guess nobody considers philosophy very important to teach little kids.  I probably could look it up, but - I'd rather learn from you?"  That she will be learning about the Sage's philosophy somehow is practically a consequence of her being.  "If you'd teach me."

"...I can understand why you might not want to.  I just..."

She trails off, making some sort of inchoate gesture of - yearning.

"You sound so sincere, when you're talking about this.  And - for all that this feels somehow selfish - I'd rather learn from someone who really believes in what they're teaching, than some dry scholarly history thereof."

“Whyever would I want that? Anything I taught you, you would just put to use as a ninja.”

"...I'm not sure how a philosophy of pursuing wisdom and enlightenment, and peacefully ending conflict, is useful to ninja, Kyuubi-san, but if it is, then it's clearly sorely needed.  I'm not going to lie to you and say I'm not going to train in the Academy - because I want to learn chakra-assisted architecture, really, that and medicine, and the Academy is the only path I have to any sort of training right now - but by teaching this to me, you will have the ability to teach me your point of view, which is - really important, if you want people, and me, to not be, do, bad things.  To teach me exactly why you speak the word 'ninja' with such disgust, when you and they both often feature as the monsters under the bed in the stories people tell eachother.  ...I don't want to be a ninja, Kyuubi-san.  I want to change the world, so that nobody ever has to be another me - another human sacrifice to the person they believe is at best an uncaringly murderous god.  So that one day I can let you out and trust that you won't immediately murder everyone I care about, because they won't be doing the stuff that makes you hate them so much anymore.  That's what I see, when I look for the Will of Fire and dream about the futures I'd like to have."

She pauses, catching her metaphysical breath.

"...I...

"This is clearly something that you care a lot about, and it would be horribly disrespectful of you as a possible sensei to pressure you to decide right now, so...I'm going to leave you some privacy, I guess; you know how to get my attention if you want it."

And unless Kyuubi-sama - and how did that happen?  At what point did the regard she holds him in grow so high? - says otherwise, she will leave him in peace, for now.

The Kyuubi listens in silence until she leaves. In his youth he would have thought much the same, but the sage's children and students had not even waited for his body to cool before forging Ninshu into weapons of war, and in the years since humans had not permitted a single source of knowledge to refrain. For all that they could not match his power, the sheer creativity that humans were willing to devote to twisting things to violence was something he had never been able to equal.

Meanwhile, she's going to go - well first she's going to write down what the Kyuubi told her, maybe even seal it (like, with wax; she's not quite Uzumaki-brained enough to invent a seal seal like that,) and ask the librarian to witness that she came in with the paper sealed up - and then she's going to find the dictionary entry for Samadhi.  ...And maybe, also, cry.  Something feels like grief, and heartache, and...

She has a few guesses as to why.

According to the library Samadhi is a type of meditation employed by Shaivism, a religion commonly followed in the southwest of the continent, with the goal of achieving absolute focus. Some scholarship suggests that it may have been a result of syncretism with the then-widespread Theravāda monks, but any records of the period in question are unclear and the latter religion has fallen out of favor.

...Huh.  Interesting.  If not relevant to the present question.

Do either of them trace their philosophy back to the Sage of Six Paths, though?

There’s no shortage of religions that tie the sage into their mythology; in much of Konoha and Fire Country, for instance, he is worshipped as one of the Kami. Neither Shaivism nor Theravāda are exceptions to this; the former holds him to be an incarnation of the god of preservation, while the latter venerates him as the great teacher.

...So the Theravāda were closer to the actual, extant person of the Sage, judging by the choice of epithet.  Are there any around here?  Do they trace back further still?

There don't seem to be any big temples in Konoha, but there are a handful scattered around the lands of Fire, River, and Tea; even in the heart of their worship they aren't as popular as the Kami, but there are evidently enough of them to justify a few pagodas here and there.

...She'll have to check them out, when they start letting her out of the village.

...That day, however, is a long ways away.

She doesn't like that, but it's what she's working with.

Speaking of military secrets, where is Hokage-sama?  She's getting dangerously bored of hurrying up and waiting without even anything to do in the meantime except practice calligraphy.

The hokage is apparently still busy, though now it's getting to the point that other people are starting to remark upon it - mostly still cautiously, but the Konoha rumor mill is ever hungry. 

Despite everything going up amongst the village's upper brass, however, the lower levels of the bureaucracy still churn on. In this case, that takes the form of one of the academy Chunin instructors stopping by Naruto's orphanage to talk to kids about life as a ninja and encourage them to join the academy for the upcoming years. The pitch is obviously tailored to the audience, with a lot of focus on adventure and excitement and being a hero, but it's not any less popular amongst its target audience for being blatant propaganda.

...She spends most of the pitch making snarky comments under her breath, having a much more accurate apprehension of ninja life from her reading - but...  She does approach the recruiter.

For all his personal opinions, the fact that this is a recruitment he's not allowed to fuck up has been very thoroughly impressed on him. He talks to everyone who was in line before her first, because there's no reason to play favorites for her, but when it's her turn he smiles at Naruto with a pretty good facsimile of cheer.

"So, are you also considering becoming a ninja?"