Fugaku was surprised when during dinner, his youngest was clearly absent. When he asked his wife about it, she waved her hand dismissively and said, "oh that, he isn't hungry. He said he was working on something very important."
"He didn't even greet me when I got home, what could be so important?" He was accostumed to the attention Sasuke gave him, he was a little hurt that Sasuke hadn't greeted him by the door, it was tradition, or at least to Fugaku it was. Mikoto passed him his plates while stifling a giggle at his question. "What's so amusing?" When his wife ignored his question, he looked to his son for an answer.
Itachi was about to speak, when Mikoto interrupted, "he is in love."
"Itachi, while love is important, you are still young. I hope this doesn't interfere with your training."
Itachi's face was red when he responded, "father it is not I that is in love."
Itachi had never seen his father look so surprised in his life, his eyes wide open as he said, "Sasuke!?"
"Yes. He is writing the girl a love letter as we speak, though I don't know how he plans on giving it to her when he doesn't even know her name."
"A love letter? He is in love? But he is four." He pushed his plate aside, suddenly no longer feeling hungry, only feeling old.
"Age doesn't appear to matter with love, or at least he doesn't think so." Mikoto nodded agreeing with Itachi. "He saw the girl at the park and decided it was love."
"He asked me to take him to the park tomorrow to deliver the letter personally." Mikoto informed her husband.
"It's a waste of time, he won't approach her, not if today is anything to go by." Fugaku was then caught up in the details of his four year old's love life.
Once dinner was over he choose to check up on his son, who had yet to even say hello to him. Peeking at Sasuke from the doorway he saw a bunch of crumpled up paper on the floor. "Sasuke, what are you doing?"
"I want to let my girlfriend know how much I love her. I saw on the show my mom watches that girls like getting letters from their boyfriends." He said it in such a matter of fact way that Fugaku knew the boy had fallen hard.
"And, what if she can't read?"
Sasuke's eyes widened absolute horror. He put the marker he was writing with down, "I didn't think about that, what did you do to get mom to marry you?"
Fugaku, though slightly offended at his son's choice of words, answered, "you are too young to think about marriage."
"Age is nothing but a number."
Fugaku picked up one of the papers closest to him he tried reading it but the most he could make out was will, you, and me. Putting it down he said," your number is too low. Also where did you hear that?"
"Someone on tv said it."
"One of your mother's shows?" Sasuke nodded, Fugaku sighed. "How about this, before you get married to her, promise me you'll know her name-"
"All I gotta do is learn her name?" His eyes were sparkling with excitement, though he could see hints of confusion. He wasn't about to question his son's logic, at least not today.
Arguing with himself, and deciding no harm could really come from a four year old's crush, he answered, "Yes, once you know her name you have my permission to marry her." Based on what Itachi said, the boy would be in his twenties before even saying hello to the girl.
Sasuke responded with a smile and a thank you. Fugaku was about to walk away when Sasuke stopped him, " if she can't read, what should I get her then?"
"Well that depends on the girl," knowing how little his son knew about the girl he asked, "what does she like?"
His son looked like a man on a mission, if Sasuke had been studying, Fugaku would have been proud of the struggle. "Well I know she likes me, so she has to like the things I like. "
"That's not how it works, why don't you try giving her a flower?"
"A flower?" His son sounded so offended he wanted to laugh,"but that's soo girly. You really don't know her."
"No," Fugaku sighed,"I really don't."
A/N: four year old Sasuke's love is based on my nephews crush when he was four, though he still likes the girl now and he is now 8... I keep telling him he can't just call her his girlfriend if he has never spoken to her... but his answer is "we are too shy..." while blushing...I really like this AU so I am thinking of making this into its own multi chapter story that would end the day of Sasuke and Sakura's wedding... obviously Itachi wouldn't be invited :P and no flowers would be present... if you guys have anything you guys want me to write please don't hesitate to ask, I will try to do you justice... as for Timely... ... eventually there will be an update... hopefully within the next month... also I love writing Fugaku he is so easy to write... one final also I make no promises of when but you will get Sakura's perspective on Sasuke's crush... know this, perspective matters...
actually one final also, all these stories do have the potential to become multi chapter fics, its just I really need on thing from you the readers, reviews to tell me which one you would like to be next, once timely is done (and I have written the story in such a way that I could end it any moment and it would be logical, rushed but logical)... don't be afraid to ask for more on any of these.. think of beginnings as small previews to stories... however if any of you have read Broken Doll, that one is a oneshot, and it will not have more to accompany it. if you have any questions my tumblr is sasusakufangirl... I have that on my profile but no one ever looks at those here.