Naruto had been given the ability to see the future? Sasuke's concern about the possibility of compromising of the Sharingan grew, a cold knot forming in the pit of his stomach. What the hell had the doctor said exactly, that they had ways of manipulating what they could learn from his genetic information?
-- he had tensed without even realising it. Sasuke forced himself to relax and : no matter what his concerns were regarding the possibility of having failed to protect the Uchiha even in this simple way, there was no way he could reveal that to Jiraiya. Like matters between Sasuke and Itachi, this was a private matter; a matter of clan.
Fortunately Jiraiya provided plenty of other problems to consider. If Naruto had already seen one major event in his future, then he was likely going to see another. That could prove to be an annoyance.
And ... the Sannin revealed a confidence in Naruto that was more interesting than anything else. Sasuke expected a certain amount of bias on Jiraiya's part, and indeed on any Konoha-nin's; Naruto was the man's student, after all. And Sasuke could admit that Naruto was capable of a certain amount of progress, although he also knew first-hand that Naruto had a habit of tossing all of that aside in order to chase ridiculous goals and forfeit dreams that might actually allow him to improve. Defeating Pain, though, was probably far-fetched.
At least for Naruto as he was now, as Sasuke had last seen and assessed him. Definitely not remotely strong enough to stand a chance in real battle against a consummate shinobi the likes of the leader of Akatsuki doubtless was. But Jiraiya mentioned further training (with the toads? Orochimaru had mentioned something like that before, but he'd dismissed it as something unimportant at the time); perhaps that was supposed to be the cause?
It was indeed a lot of information, and Sasuke still had his reservations about accepting all of it as true -- but in the next moment Jiraiya revealed that he had indeed been trying to smooth the path into his real topic of interest.
Which was something that Sasuke, to his considerable irritation, had no concrete knowledge about. He didn't like admitting to knowing that much less, especially when Jiraiya had just provided that much information (it smacked too much of a debt), but there was no way to get around the fact that Sasuke only had guesses.
Or a guess; the only person he knew to be planning to kill Orochimaru with an actual chance of success was ... well, it was himself. And if he could confirm that he had, in the future that Jiraiya knew, then he could extrapolate what had likely happened, if it had gone to plan.
"What about the person who killed Orochimaru?" He asked finally, tone perfectly neutral as he carefully stored the other information away for future consideration.
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-- he had tensed without even realising it. Sasuke forced himself to relax and : no matter what his concerns were regarding the possibility of having failed to protect the Uchiha even in this simple way, there was no way he could reveal that to Jiraiya. Like matters between Sasuke and Itachi, this was a private matter; a matter of clan.
Fortunately Jiraiya provided plenty of other problems to consider. If Naruto had already seen one major event in his future, then he was likely going to see another. That could prove to be an annoyance.
And ... the Sannin revealed a confidence in Naruto that was more interesting than anything else. Sasuke expected a certain amount of bias on Jiraiya's part, and indeed on any Konoha-nin's; Naruto was the man's student, after all. And Sasuke could admit that Naruto was capable of a certain amount of progress, although he also knew first-hand that Naruto had a habit of tossing all of that aside in order to chase ridiculous goals and forfeit dreams that might actually allow him to improve. Defeating Pain, though, was probably far-fetched.
At least for Naruto as he was now, as Sasuke had last seen and assessed him. Definitely not remotely strong enough to stand a chance in real battle against a consummate shinobi the likes of the leader of Akatsuki doubtless was. But Jiraiya mentioned further training (with the toads? Orochimaru had mentioned something like that before, but he'd dismissed it as something unimportant at the time); perhaps that was supposed to be the cause?
It was indeed a lot of information, and Sasuke still had his reservations about accepting all of it as true -- but in the next moment Jiraiya revealed that he had indeed been trying to smooth the path into his real topic of interest.
Which was something that Sasuke, to his considerable irritation, had no concrete knowledge about. He didn't like admitting to knowing that much less, especially when Jiraiya had just provided that much information (it smacked too much of a debt), but there was no way to get around the fact that Sasuke only had guesses.
Or a guess; the only person he knew to be planning to kill Orochimaru with an actual chance of success was ... well, it was himself. And if he could confirm that he had, in the future that Jiraiya knew, then he could extrapolate what had likely happened, if it had gone to plan.
"What about the person who killed Orochimaru?" He asked finally, tone perfectly neutral as he carefully stored the other information away for future consideration.