Tch, at least the Sannin was willing to admit that it was foolish romanticism to consider allies and enemies in strict terms of black and white -- though Sasuke had to wonder, if Jiraiya was aware of the idiocy inherent in such a thing, why the man had bothered to mention it at all. He'd thought that he understood Jiraiya's goals here, and he did understand the overall idea behind what the Sannin was doing, but the logic behind the way he was going about this made little to no sense to Sasuke.

If the Sannin was attempting to keep Naruto out of harm's way, he would have done much better focusing on that fool instead of trying to somehow convince himself that Sasuke was 'good.'

At least what the man said next made sense in context of his stated objectives. Even Sasuke couldn't argue with Jiraiya's assertion that Sasuke was unlikely to pay attention to emotional cues from Naruto, if only because he rarely made a point to pay attention to Naruto in general.

Because he couldn't afford to -- more trouble that it was worth for everyone involved.

"You made me aware from the beginning," Sasuke said coolly. "There was no point belabouring all these other irrelevant points. Don't bother wasting your breath and definitely stop wasting my time with such things."