The uneasiness Fugaku had initially felt about taking his son's healing as his responsibility had eased throughout the day, more so while driving. Sasuke had long ago fallen asleep, if Fugaku was honest with himself, as he was prone to, it was a miracle Sasuke had stayed awake as long as he had.
Fugaku laughed recalling that the likely reason why Sasuke had remained awake as long as he had was the cold shower. He was surprised Sasuke did not complain to him, he was prepared to admit he had turned off the hot water, but no accusations came his way. After his conversations at the hospital he did feel guilty for his actions. To console the part of drenched in guilt he told himself that as a father he needed to punish, besides Sasuke had yet to accuse him of anything.
The next part of his plan Fugaku knew would be the more difficult aspect of it. Taking advantage of Sasuke's current deep sleep he made a stop at a gas station and took his phone. Was this an invasion of privacy? He pondered as he leaned on the car, but more importantly, what would be his pin code?
He tried to think like Sasuke, it would never be a birthday, and it would never be something as stupid 1234 . Those would be too easy, looking at Sasuke's sleeping form he considered his son's life. Sasuke had an aversion to change, he liked things to be constant, whatever his pin was it would be something he would have used on his previous phones. With a friend like Naruto, it would also have to be something Naruto could never guess or expect.
Thinking more on it, he recalled how Mikoto used to joke that getting ahold of Sakura was easy since she always had Sasuke's phone with her. He too had often called Sasuke only to have Sakura be the one to answer, which could only mean Sakura had full access to Sasuke's phone. A pin Sakura would know, something they both would know, something neither would forget. He now knew his son was a fool in love, so maybe it was a birthday? No, he realized, if Sakura had access to his phone he would never have it be her birthday.
His phone had basically been hers in their time together, meaning it would be easy to guess her birthday. Besides, even he knew of the existence of Sakura's nosey friend, she would have looked through the phone if what Itachi had said was true at least. The years he knew Sakura he had gotten to know that she was a romantic at heart, or at least when it came to his son.
Two teenagers in love, romantics at nature, and with nosey friends. It would never be their anniversary, Naruto would never let Sasuke hear the end of it. However, it would have to do with their love for each other.
"You should try 0809."
"Fuck! Sasuke!" He almost dropped the phone, then more calmly, "you startled me." He had so focused on his task he had forgotten the danger of Sasuke waking up. He looked at Sasuke who looked both amused, and angry. When did he get here? He fought off the urge to look around him, Fugaku felt like a child who had been caught in the act of stealing cookies from the jar after being told no.
"Why do you have my phone?"
"I will tell you, if you tell me what that date means." He felt stupid, but he had been thinking about the pin a ridiculous amount of time. Fugaku was certain that with enough time he could figure it out, he was close he knew.
"It's not a date," he replied, the scowl never leaving his face. He seemed to think over if it was worth answering or not. He must have decided it was worth it, because quietly he said, "it's our ages when we met."
It was a lie, not of it being their ages, but of it being due to when they met. They were romantics, they could have chosen the ages of when they started dating. There was more to it, but Sasuke didn't feel like sharing and he had no intention of forcing him.
"Why do you have my phone?" He asked again the anger seeming to cool a little, pulling him from his shock.
"I wanted Naruto's number." Words he never thought he would say and based on Sasuke's shocked expression they were in the same boat.
Sasuke took his phone back the anger making a stronger appearance, "you could have just asked instead of taking it."
"You were sleeping so comfortably, I just didn't want to disturb." He was teasing, and it seemed to ease Sasuke enough. "But I do need Naruto's number." Sasuke tensed back up, he messed up, he knew it was risky to take his phone.
"I don't want him to know, I don't want anybody to know. If I hadn't been drunk you wouldn't know either."
"If you hadn't left the box with the ring laying around on the floor you mean." This was going from bad to worse, Sasuke was defensive now, and he was not helping the situation.
"What the fuck were you even doing in my room!? What else have you taken? The ring, my phone, what's next?"
"We were conversing as adults do not so long ago, and that is the only way I will converse with you."
"Adults? Now you want to play that card? What where you really doing with my phone? You wanted to know the meaning behind the numbers, I told you, I was honest." Sasuke turned away then, walking away.
A/N: so I know it almost seems like a disconnection from the previous events with how nicely Fugaku and Sasuke were speaking to each other in the past, but there is a reason for it... just like there is a reason why I gave you all a glimpse into Fugaku trying to figure what Sasuke's pin is. The next update really covers the breakthrough, and it is a moment I never intended to happen at a gas station tbh but it is a moment I have had written and rewritten.
So no update on love because I am debating the next event a lot and I am not ready to commit to any ideas I have for it. But I am down for any updates, lately my only fun is my phone, take advantage make requests!
Like always thank you for reading.