Nami pressed her ample-
"OH MY GOD!" an unrepentant shout sounded, muffled by the walls of the inn.
The source of the cry was about three rooms over and one floor above. He's a shinobi. He can pinpoint these things, and if he stores the location in the back of his brain to maybe hop over later and burst into the room with a screeching chidori in his hands, then, well - that's their problem.
Nami pressed her am-
"THAT SON OF A BITCH!" There is now a note of hysteria in the shouting. Good. Cry, you insolent bastard.
Nami-
"AHHHHH!" The young child - or teenager, he doesn't really care - screams for the tenth time in the last hour.
Kakashi throws his book at the opposing wall and doesn't watch as it drops onto the wooden flooring. He gets out of the bed, opens the door of his room, and starts on his way there, wondering if he should even be surprised that the first (and probably only) time that he takes a break from Anbu ends up with him (maybe) trying to strangle a civilian.
At least he can tell Tenzo he tried. The guy had managed to get the entire team into nagging him about "overworking yourself too much! Honestly, I can't even tell if you want to just drop dead on a mission somewhere halfway to Kiri…" something, something, he had tuned out most of it. Kakashi hadn't responded to the insinuation of a suicide wish under that joke though, only ignored it, and apparently, that was enough proof that his mental check records for the last three years had been forged. What? How? He probably shouldn't have looked a bit too impressed at that accusation and proceeded to tell Tenzo that his eye for official documents has gotten better.
His colleague (Tenzo would say friend) hadn't looked happy at that. Only mad. And then sad. And then Yuugao had gotten involved. And then everyone else had gotten involved. And hence, here he is.
Kakashi stands in front of the door of the offending room in his black shirt and pants, trying to decide if he should henge into a jonin uniform to look more intimidating. He stays as he is. Reaching up to knock on the door, he concentrates and notes that there are two people in the room. One of them has a chakra signature of a jonin, they're probably the parent of the kid then.
He raps on the door twice.
There's about ten whole seconds of silence, and then the door opens, a worried looking teenager appears. This one is… the jonin. Ok. Well, he isn't a Konoha one. Kakashi doesn't recognize him from the forces. The kid's features are average - he could be from anywhere, any shinobi village, honestly. He isn't wearing a henge either, or at least a henge that changes his height, Kakashi can tell that much. If Intelligence thought he was a problem he would have been briefed. Anyways, the important thing is that now, there's no chance of him trying to strangle anyone.
"Do you mind keeping it down?" Kakashi asks, lifting an eyebrow. "And remember don't incriminate anyone else, if anything happens." He adds.
The kid huffs a laugh. "Ah. No. Sorry," he gives a pained smile, "I'm just dealing with my little cousin, who's a handful. I probably should have got a place with thicker walls at least, sorry-"
Kakashi interrupts him, because he's like that, "Are you a relative of Sarutobi Asuma, by any chance?"
The teen looks surprised.
"No?" He answers. "My name is Watanabe Kawaki. Though I do get told that somtimes, and my sister always joked that I should henge when passing through Yuga, just so no one mistakens me for a Twelve Guardian Ninja member-" he's cut off short this time by a small child appearing from behind him, who looks to be literally around five years old, and… is also wearing a full Anbu uniform, complete with tanto across the back and everything, but no mask.
It's probably just a coincidence that the boy's clothing, issued by whatever village they're from, looks exactly like the standard ROOT uniform.
Haha, who's he kidding, it's not a coincidence.
Kakashi's eyes jump back to Watanabe, who looks like he wants to go back to periodically cursing the universe.
The ROOT agent's chakra suddenly flares up, and turns defensive. Of course, he sighs. So the kid was just hiding it. Watanabe seems like he really doesn't want to fight, so Kakashi glances to the right, then the left. Privacy. The other jonin understands, and steps aside to let him into the room, closing the door behind him.
Kakashi waits until Watanabe is finished with his privacy seal, until he fully turns around to face him to ask,
"Water, sun the sprout?"
It is the prompt for someone who is recruiting a ROOT trainee after an infiltration period in Danzo's organization. There are a lot of things clearly going wrong right now. For one, this is one of the codes of which Kakashi should preferably never have to use. He is never supposed to know for sure if someone is on such a mission (even if he theoretically understands that the Sandaime probably has a few people working on it), much less interact with them. Secondly, why are they in a hot spring inn? Though he knows that missions, and life in general, can lead to all sorts of situations, maybe even one in which one escapes from the Anbu ROOT base to recoup in Otafuku-gai, so he uses the prompt.
The jonin clearly doesn't know the phrase. Kakashi doesn't know whether to be relieved or even more afraid.