A/N: I've taken up the 100 themes challenge. They may or may not be in order, but frankly, who cares? This is short, and, to be honest, quite crappy. Team 10 friendship.

Fanfic Title: Introductions
Prompt: 1/100: Introduction
Summary: Asuma makes his students introduce themselves.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto

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"OK. I suppose we're going to have to start with introductions about ourselves, alright?" said Sarutobi Asuma, his cigarette moving up and down as he spoke. "OK. Name, one like, one dislike, a hobby and a dream that you have. Starting from the right. You with the pineapple," he nodded to a boy who had his eyes half-closed. "Start."

The boy looked up and sighed. "Why? We already know everything about each other."

The girl nodded. "Yep. We're the second generation of the Ino-Shika-Chou formation, and we are so totally going to beat our dads at it!" she grinned, punching her arm in the air.

The chubby boy who had been constantly eating paused and nodded. "Yeah. We will."

Asuma raised an eyebrow. "Ino-Shika-Chou formation?" he asked, frowning slightly. The name was slightly familiar yet he couldn't quite place it.

"You haven't heard of it?" asked the girl, looking at him incredulously, as though he had just explained a lifelong addiction to unfashionable attire. "Seriously? They're Jounins as well."

Asuma rested his back onto the railings and looked at the team. They were most definitely weird, that was sure. But somehow…they were vaguely interesting as well. The loudmouthed pretty blonde, the lazy looking pony tailed boy and the one who hadn't stopped eating yet. "Jounins? What are their names?"

The girl instantly answered. It was obvious that she was the leader of this group, and the boys seemed willing to let it stay that way, without much argument. "My dad is Yamanaka Inoichi, his," she pointed at the one who was eating, "is Akimichi Chouza, and lazy ass's is Nara Shikaku."

Asuma's eyebrows rose slightly. "So, you're their kids then? So, you're going to have to do a lot to live up to their expectations, then, huh?"

"No," the one with the ponytail said, obviously deeming this important enough to talk. "They're them. We're us. We're the new Ino-Shika-Chou, so we're going to do it differently. We are not them."

"Yes…but, even if you three know each other, however, I do not know you, and it's the same vice-versa. Name, one like, one dislike, a hobby, a dream, the way you fight, and one fact in general. Shall I start? My name is Sarutobi Asuma. I like smoking. I dislike it when my family tell me to stop. My hobby is playing Go." He noticed that the one with the pony tail open his eyes properly and look at him closely. He mentally congratulated himself at the fact that he had got him interested. "My dream is to…well…maybe have a family? I do fire and water elemental techniques and I use special weapons that were made for me."

"By who?" the blonde kunoichi's face was instantly alight with the hint of gossip. "Do we know him?"

"Third Hokage. I'm related to him after all," Asuma shrugged, hiding his pride. "And that's my fact. Now, you, the girl. Start."

"My name is Yamanaka Ino. I like…a lot of things, such as clothes, make up, hair, jewellery, Sasuke and flowers. Not in that order. I dislike Haruno Sakura, when Shika's being lazy and when Chouji won't stop eating. My hobby is to collect and arrange flowers. My dream is…well, I think that's private. I fight using mind techniques, like all my clan do. My fact is that I bought us these earrings," she flicked one of her earrings, and Asuma glanced at the others. They were wearing earrings as well.

"Good. Next," he said, pointing at the one who was eating. They were close, he could see that. Hopefully, their teamwork wouldn't need much practice.

"My name is Akimichi Chouji. I like barbecue chips and meat. I dislike it when people call me fat, because I'm actually just chubby. My hobby is eating, my dream is to…I don't know. I fight using techniques to do with the body. One fact is that…Shika was my first friend."

Asuma raised an eyebrow. He had definitely been given an interesting group. "And pineapple boy."

The boy, who had been staring at the sky looked at the jounin. "Geez. My name is Nara Shikamaru. I like clouds. I dislike things that are troublesome, women and troublesome women. My hobby is watching the clouds. My dream is to live a normal life. I fight using shadow techniques. My fact is that I like to play Go."

Asuma stood up properly and regarded the three genin. "Well…I have to be honest. I like you guys. Train hard, play hard, and we'll get along fine."

"Tch. Yeah," sighed the Nara. "You think that we're troublesome. We think that this whole thing is troublesome. Some of us didn't even want to be here."

"Well, maybe you do think that. And maybe I do think that. Well…before we start training, why not I take you down to get some barbecue? And then we can help Ino pick flowers and I'll play Go with you, old man."

The team mostly scowled at his sarcasm, but they were happy. They had close to the best sensei in their opinion.
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A/N: Done. Review?