heres a theory one might consider *in fact too many people*
the bird is sharingan
no
how can you get sharingan from genjutsu?
and if naruto did get sharingan it wouldnt help against sasuke ems sharingan.
in a sharingan genjutsu battle, in order too win you have too have either the same sharingan or a more powerful sharingan then the one whos trying too place you under genjutsu.
so why would itachi waste his time giving naruto sharingan?
so that bird is not sharingan.
the most logicall theory that ive read is that the bird was itachi placing some of his chakra inside naruto, like how narutos parents did. and sasuke is going too have to meet the kyuubi again inside naruto and when he does itachi will most likely be there waiting on him. itachi will tell sasuke that it was madaras idea too wipe out the uchiha clan or something like that, that will turn sasuke against madara.
btw ive noticed that kishi has copied a few plot lines from other comics and animes
he even said in an interview he watched other animes and came up with naruto.
so all we really have too do is think of a few other animes kishi might have got ideas from when creating naruto, piece them together and then use some actual naruto facts and include a theory and then that would probably be the most legitimate theory
i figure its probably
30% plot copy
30%theory
40% actual naruto facts