"I'm ecstatic," muttered Kakashi, taking his dog mask off and pushing his hitai-ate up for a moment to check the henge. Seemed solid. "This is how I enjoy spending my nights. Frostbite is my very special friend." He lowered the hitai-ate and regarded the door once more. "Let's hope the owner's a light sleeper." He raised a fist and pounded the wood, putting an edge of chakra in to get a nice loud boom.

"Oi! Frozen people out here needing a room!" He modulated his accent, switching from a drawl to a faster clip, something closer to Rain-dialect. "Up and at 'em!"

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The innkeeper proved to be a dyspeptic looking man who was, thanks to the nearness of dawn, already awake, preparing for the day to come. He showed the weary travelers to a room, brought them hot tea and rice, and left them to their own devices. Ginta promised him that once he'd recovered a bit, he'd come down with some marvelous liniment for the old man's rheumatism.

After they were alone, Ginta set seals on the doors while Kakashi tossed the room for anything suspicious, then set seals ion the windows as well. Once they were absolutely sure they were unobserved, Ginta dropped the illusion.

"You look like hell," he told Kakashi frankly. "I'll take first watch. I still feel pretty good. Probably go down and see what I can find out once people are up and moving. Maybe someone here saw our guy."

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Kakashi would have argued, but the bed was right there and he was fairly certain he could make it without hitting the floor first. He still directed a look at Ginta that suggested the man should seriously look into that ditch option, preferably with added fire. Then he flipped him off for a bit of added emphasis, glanced over the seals once more and fell onto the bed without removing a stitch of clothing.

"Wake me up... in six," he managed." An' don't do... anything... dumb, jackass," The copy-nin slipped straight into an exhausted sleep, too tired to dream.

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It was nearly four in the afternoon before Ginta came back from his prowling and woke Kakashi. He let himself in the room, sat down crosslegged next to the bed, and looked the sleeping ninja in the face. He almost looked relaxed when he was asleep, and he hadn't seemed to move enough to even slightly disturb the covers. Poor guy must have been just whipped. But now the day was wearing on and Ginta was starting to feel the siren song of a nap calling. "Hey, genius boy, wake up," he whispered, and blew a stream of air at Kakashi's face, ruffling his hair.

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Kakashi flinched, yanked out of black nothingness to warm breath on his face. He pulled back and struck out automatically, hitting nothing. Then he opened an eye. Ginta. Right. Go figure. The copy-nin regarded the blond ANBU seated in front of him with a certain amount of puzzlement for a moment, swiftly colouring to annoyance as a glance at his internal clock suggested it had been much longer then six hours. He pushed himself up and yawned, dragging a hand through his -- considerably messier -- hair. "You lose your watch, jackass?"

He felt better for the long sleep though, little aches and pains faded somewhat. He felt better still when he twisted, popping his spine with a series of juicy sounding cracks. Kakashi shivered once and turned his attention back to Ginta, noting the tired cast of the man's face. Idiot. Should've woken him up earlier. "Find anything out at least?"

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"We lucked out. Our guy Kawai? He's here. In room 512. Innkeeper said he got sick or something and has been holed up here a couple of days." Ginta grinned, very pleased with himself. "I totally told him we knew he was sick, and that's why we were looking for him. Because he'd left our master without finishing his course of treatment, but we were here to set him to rights." He laughed delightedly and pulled out a thick gold coin, which he tossed in the air and caught over and over.

"And? Check this out!" He tossed the coin to Kakashi. "I sold five people, including the innkeeper, enough to let us totally live out this mission in style. Sold 'em burn cream, those useless little orange vitamin pills, and in one case a tube of lube." Ginta cackled like a loon, then yawned.

"Anyway, now I'm wiped. You ready to stand watch now you've had your beauty sleep? I figure we can do this hit in the morning, be back in Konoha in time to go out dancing on Saturday."

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Kakashi caught the coin with a neat flip of his wrist and turned it over thoughtfully. "You realise," he said slowly, "If you get burned on this mission, I am going to laugh and laugh and laugh." Still, it was nice to have a bonus. "Plan sounds good if you scratch the dancing," he added, standing with another stretch and crackle of bones. Oof, stiff. One of the flaws of lying relatively motionless for several hours.

And he wanted a bath, dammit. Second night of sleeping in the same clothes that had now been through two missions just didn't add up to a good smell.

It would have to wait. Kakashi called up his own henge, matching it to the one Genta had made previously, picked up his sword and headed for the door. "Sleep sweet, jackass" he called dryly, as he left.

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