This school was as easy to break into as the last five had been. In Konoha, there had been a single school: the Academy. He was absolutely not expecting there to be eighteen schools in the immediate area, including what he now discovered to be Kindergarten, Elementary, Junior High, High, and University.
He had thought back to what Not-Iruka had said when he was planning this mission... When he'd called him 'Iruka-sensei' in his temporary confusion...
"Don't let the kids hear you call me that, or I'll never hear the end of it!"
Not-Iruka had said 'kids' specifically. 'Kids' back in his world perhaps meant a very different age group compared to this world, but Kakashi thought it would be a good idea to narrow his search down to under fifteen. That ruled out the High Schools and the Universities, but still left thirteen schools for him to search.
After going through two kindergartens (nothing) and three elementary schools (still nothing), Kakashi found himself breaking into his first Junior High School. He made his way to the roof to survey the situation. This school was larger than the last few he'd been to. And it was much larger than the Academy back in Konoha. The students all seemed to be outside playing several types of sports, but he didn't see too many adults. Perhaps the teachers were all inside.
The main building itself was four stories tall. After a quick look from the outside, it appeared to have about 4 classrooms on the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors, with roughly 30 desks sitting in each class. That came out to about 360 students, more or less. It definitely helped that there were none roaming the halls.
Kakashi entered the building through an open window on the 2nd floor. He knew from the past 5 schools that the 'Teacher Room' was somewhere on the first floor. A file room of some kind must be around nearby.
The objective of Kakashi's self-imposed mission was not confrontation. It was merely to discover Not-Kakashi's home address. A face-to-face meeting would happen at a later time.
He shunshin'd from corner to corner, making his way through the hallway. Not that it was necessary. It was completely deserted. Nevertheless, better safe than sorry.
Kakashi quickly made his way to the staircase and cautiously descended down to the first floor.
He paused for a second as a flurry of memories rushed into his head. Seems one of his shadow clones popped. He mentally sifted through the information before coming to the conclusion that the target wasn't present at that school. Kakashi sighed. He only had the chakra reserves to make a few shadow clones at a time, so it was a pain when it turned out one of them had no useful information to report back. So Kakashi got back to work.
He discovered the door that led to the 'Teacher Room' and quietly snuck inside. Twenty four or so desks sat in the large, open room in four smaller islands of six. Most of them were occupied with teachers working. Kakashi could hear the light murmer of whispered conversation as well as the generic office sounds that filled the space.
He sat quietly, perched on the wall up near the ceiling.
Before long, Kakashi found Not-Iruka. He was mentally high-fiving himself after finally finding the man after so many attempts. And if Kakashi wasn't mistaken, Not-Kakashi should be around here as well. Except that... he wasn't.
Perhaps he was still sick? Kakashi was about to get up and leave when the door to the room creaked open. He had to pause when, in the doorway, he saw a man that looked so perfectly identical to him that it made him uneasy. Not-Kakashi shuffled in with his gravity defying silver hair, his eyes (both visible and decidedly not red) lidded, and his mouth covered by a medial mask. He said a greeting before moving to his desk, diagonal from Not-Iruka's.
Kakashi waited a beat before shunshin-ing into the hallway and dispelling all of his active clones. The memories of fruitlessly searching schools came back to him, but there was no information worth remembering.
Kakashi had finally been able to confirm this as Not-Kakashi's school. Now he just had to find the man's address.
The neighboring room held a single man sitting at a desk surrounded by bookshelves of binders. As good a place as any to start, Kakashi thought to himself. He jumped on the unsuspecting man's desk, but he didn't even have the change to be properly terrified before he was knocked out by one of Kakashi's genjutsu.
Once the man was out of the way, Kakashi slid the door closed, twisted the lock, and got to work.
