Not showing it around them ... it was weird enough to realize that Kushina was referring to both him and Itachi as 'kids', let alone trying to picture Fugaku's stern face looking anything but stoically unamused. Distantly, Sasuke was aware that Fugaku had been perhaps less inclined to stiffness when he was younger, but he wasn't sure if that was so much his own memory as his mother's stories about things he didn't remember anymore.

"I guess," he said, awkward now that they were definitely talking about feelings (and his father's, of all people). "Anyway -- Dad probably won't say anything against my going, is what I meant."