Minuets passed turning into hours, many Hidden Sound ninja's passed by the house, oblivious to the infiltration team that lay unconscious inside the house. On the other side of the village, while Kakashi's group slept through the rest of the night, Shikamaru's group were preparing to infiltrate as they'd eventually got to the wall to see the guards shifts. Hinata waved a hand to the side signalling everyone to stop and approach with caution. Lee twirled around the trees to stop a few feet before the wall with Shikamaru carefully crouching next to him, peering through a small opening in the bush. Ino and Hinata stayed high in the trees a bit back, with Neji just under them on a lower branch. The group peered at the guards on duty and they sat there waiting for them to have a shift swap. When the guards began to leave their equipment for the next wave of guards Shikamaru waved a signal with a single hand and everyone regrouped behind a cluster of trees not far back. "We have to infiltrate now," Shikamaru earned many confused or outraged looks.
"Why don't we not wait till we know how long they have between the two shift swaps?" Hinata asked curiously. Shikamaru and Neji turned serious gazes towards her.
"If we waited that long we're dwindling the chances of entering without being detected. We do it now or we do it next night fall…" he waited a moment before saying, "thought so."
"Their leaving now," Neji murmured off handily as he gazed towards the gate with his Byakugan activated.
"Okay, let's go!" Lee bounded towards the other gates weakest point and though he was going at a ridiculous pace he was being surprisingly agile and made hardly any noise. Shikamaru held back a heavy sigh as the commonly known words "how troublesome" sprung to his mind. He stood and began to lightly jog after Lee, the others following suit. They reached the edge of the forests coverage and with the quiet confirmations from Hinata and Neji that the cost was clear they scaled the wall and landed with quiet thuds. They hurried behind one of the closest buildings making sure the darkness was concealing them.
"Neji, Hinata, can you see any empty buildings?" Shikamaru spoke in a hushed tone. Both Hyuga's began to slowly observe the area with their trademark Byakugan allowing them to see far off into the housing around them.
"That one," the Hyuga's simultaneously answered, Neji inattentively muttered as Hinata pointing around the corner towards one of the centre buildings; it looked like an abandoned office, like the mission office back at the Hidden Leaf. Lee, before anyone had a chance to speak again, was already bounding his way over to the entrance to the building.
"You've got to be kidding me," growled Ino quietly as they raced after Lee, "I swear if you get us caught I will kill you Rock Lee." Shikamaru sighed as well as Neji who also rolled his eyes. Hinata stayed silent as she checks the surroundings as they got to the door, checking if the second round of guards were coming. Movement three blocks away caught her eye, and as she focused up onto their figure and chakra paths she noticed the common activity as those which are ninja's. She looked back at Neji blasting the lock off the door with a chakra filled palm.
"Two guards on their way, now two blocks away," urged Hinata.
"Get the door open Neji!" Ino grumbled as Neji and Lee tugged on the heavy wedged door. Lee was muttering something about the youthful way of life and how it would help them get the door open. "Just get it open," she sighed in irritation. The door creaked open in protest revealing a dark reception room, and though it looked suspiciously quiet and maybe even rigged in traps Ino shoved Lee, Hinata and Neji inside with Shikamaru hurrying in after them shutting the door behind. Neji grunted in annoyance at Ino and glared at her from the corner of his eye though she ignored the childish face he was pulling, almost an immature pout. Ino frowned as it was out of character for Neji to show practically any emotion, but she shrugged it off.