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Chapter 2: Initial Days As Genin

Next Day 7 am

Training Ground 10

Naruto was entering a clearing in training ground 10, 'This is it... this is it, finally I'm going to become a strong ninja. I will give it my all dattebayo!' When he reached the meeting spot, he was grinning like an idiot at the prospect of being taught by their jonin-sensei. There he found both of his teammates. Shikamaru, who was trying to sleep. And Ino, who was trying to uh... wake him up?! In her own way.

"Hey guys!" Both of his teammates turned towards him. Shikamaru had a lazy expression on his face, and Ino was frowning which was quickly replaced by a smirk on seeing him. "Hey Naruto!" Both said in a near unison, but the tone was way off.

Ino turned towards Shikamaru "Shika" she spoke in too sweet of a tone with a sweet smile on her face "get up or I will make Naruto do something completely humiliating to you. You know what he is capable of right?" Shikamaru paled a little and sat up like a rigid plank. He had seen Naruto do stuff to people, and he did not want to be the maniac's target. 'And I know Ino is bossy enough to make good of her threat.' He thought 'Man, why can't I have had normal team. Ugh... troublesome'

Naruto sweat-dropped at the fact that Ino will not 'ask' him, she will 'make' him do it. But he was smart enough to not antagonize Ino. Then Ino stood up abruptly.

"Alright listen up!" Both boys turned towards their now very determined looking teammate "I want our team to blow all the other teams away. Do I make myself clear? I want both of you to haul your sorry asses and help me become stronger too. Is that understood?"

Naruto sweat-dropped at the last part but he was completely there with Ino. "You are right dattebayo!" Shikamaru lifted his hand and said in mock-excitement "Yay." Soon after yells of pain were heard across half the village.

After sometime a poof of smoke was seen and an amused Asuma came forward "What was that sound just now?" he asked already guessing what might have gone down.

Ino chuckled nervously turning towards the jonin rubbing the back of her neck sheepishly "Oh it was nothing sensei, hehehe..." Asuma chuckled at that.

"Alright," he started as the group settled down "So let me give you your schedule. We will meet at the same time everyday when we are not on a mission and you are not on leave right here, then we will do a little warm-up. After that we will do team exercises like formations, chakra control, weapon, etc. Then I will make two clones that we can work with each of you one on one. Okay?" Getting three nods from his cute little genins, he proceeded.

XxX

Half An Hour Later

Asuma noted that Naruto looked like he was just running for like 2 minutes whereas his teammates were panting heavily. And also he was way faster then either of his teammates. 'Guess all that pranking and running away paid off eh? He has stamina of at least chunin level and speed a little lower than low level chunin.'

"Alright guys, lets..." Asuma started but was interrupted by Ino "*huff* *huff* Can't we take a little break sensei. We are not *huff* Naruto you know." Ino pointed towards herself and Shikamaru who was... uh... asleep.

Asuma and Naruto sweat-dropped, but honestly Asuma was going to say the same thing before Ino interrupted, but now he had a scapegoat. Of course Asuma wasn't going to admit it out loud. "Alright alright, you can have a break."

After ten minutes they started again, "Okay, for you all to function properly as a team, you must know all the strong points and weaknesses of your teammates, so you can cover it or help them cover it. And for that you should spar with each other and watch when they are sparring with someone else. And you should tell the rest of us what you are capable of. Shikamaru do you mind?"

"Okay," he said in his ever present lazy demeanor "I can use my clan's most basic jutsu Kagemane no Jutsu(Shadow Possession Jutsu), I'm not really good at taijutsu and I can do the academy jutsu pretty well." Asuma nodded and turned towards Ino "Ino."

Ino nodded "Well, I can do my clan's Shintenshin no Jutsu(Mind Transfer Jutsu), and I think I'm decent at taijutsu and the academy jutsus are well within my grasp.""Naruto."

"Oh, oh, I know! I'm good at taijutsu, I only lost to Sasuke-teme and Kiba in academy but I have corrected my stances and all that stuff after graduating. I can do Henge no Jutsu(Transformation Jutsu) and Kawarimi no Jutsu(Substitution Jutsu) from the academy. And I can use my Oiroke no Jutsu(Sexy Jutsu)" At this Ino glared at Naruto but he was too busy bragging to care at the moment "and I can use the awesome Kage Bunshin no Jutsu(Shadow clone Jutsu) and I can also do my newly developed Harem no Jutsu(Harem Jutsu)."

Asuma raised an eyebrow at the last one but left it alone, he had no intention of hearing an elaboration on that after hearing the name. And Ino's left eye twitched dangerously, she was about to smash Naruto when Asuma spoke up.

"Alright, do any of you use any weapon or wish to use any weapon except for kunai and shuriken of course?" Shikamaru and Ino shook their head but Naruto beamed at that and brought forth his tanto for Asuma to see. Ino and Shikamaru looked at him with shock and Asuma smiled. "So you want to use a tanto do you?"

Naruto nodded "And this is also a super cool tanto, it can conduct catera through it." Asuma face-faulted at that, then he proceeded to pick himself up "You mean chakra. Right?" Ino sweat-dropped and Shikamaru had an amused smile on his face already used to the blonde's antics. Naruto rubbed the back of his neck sheepishly "Yeah, what you said."

"Alright, Shikamaru and Ino will be sparring and me and Naruto will be sparring. This will be a taijutsu only spar." All of them nodded.

As Ino and Shikamaru were sparing Asuma was watching them intently. Ino went in with a punch to the side of face which Shikamaru blocked but was a little slow in movement. He then retaliated with a kick to the abdomen which Ino dodged by jumping backwards and charged forward with right kick to Shikamaru's side which he retaliated with moving towards her and getting inside her guard to land a swift punch in her gut which Ino blocked but was a little too late for it to be effective and punch landed but its force was reduced due to the impact of fist on her arms and she went down rolling and stood up.

Then she charged again with a right hook towards Shikamaru's chest who redirected it with his right hand towards his right and was about to punch Ino in the back when she merely spun around with her elbow to his face which he was forced to block and then Ino swiped his legs and he landed on his back. "Alright enough." Asuma said and remembered all the points that he had to work on with them.

"Okay Naruto, you're up." Naruto nodded and stood up and strolled in front of their chain smoker sensei. "Start."

As soon as the word left Asuma's mouth, Naruto charged forward and jumped to punch in the face of Asuma who blocked it with one hand. Naruto twisted his body in Asuma's grip and kicked with his left foot which Asuma ducked under and was forced to let go of his hand. As soon as Naruto landed he punched towards Asuma who side stepped simultaneously analyzing Naruto. Naruto then spun and tried elbow the jonin in gut who blocked it.

'He is definitely in his game with punching and kicking, now lets see if he can block and dodge with the same efficiency. So time to switch to offensive.'

He threw a punch towards Naruto's face which Naruto swatted off but then he saw a knee coming towards his face which he was forced to block but was sent skidding. Naruto then charged again with a kick to jonin's ribs which the jonin blocked with ease and retaliated with a kick to kid's face which Naruto tried to block but it got through his guard and landed on Naruto's face who gaped in pain. Asuma let go of his leg and tried to punch Naruto in the gut which Naruto dodged but was then sent flying with a kick to his right shoulder.

Naruto stood up with signs of pain but was about to charge again when Asuma called the match. "Okay enough. I have seen all I wanted to see. Now Naruto take a little rest we will start again in ten. I'm going to buy me a packet of cigarettes." Naruto smiled and plopped down near Shikamaru. And Ino was glaring daggers at Asuma, but he shrugged it off much to Ino's ire. Then he left in poof of smoke.

"Man, I need to learn that thing. Thats so cool." Naruto said to himself more than anyone else. Ino then turned towards Naruto.

"You weren't kidding when you said you were improving your taijutsu. Although not on Sasuke-kun's level, but you were really good." Naruto just laughed at that.

"Don't worry I will beat that teme's ass very soon." Now that Ino did not like "Like you could ever beat Sasuke-kun." Ino looked away from the two with a 'humph'. And Shikamaru kept quite as he did not wanted to involve himself with the two blonds argument. It would be too troublesome.

After ten minutes Asuma came back with a cigarette already in his mouth smiling. "Alright, now we will be doing some chakra control exercises." And they continued with the leaf spinning which Ino was able to perform right off the bat, Shikamaru took some time and Naruto was having it hard, and he was also using twenty clones to do it.

"Man, this is tougher than I thought it would be." Naruto complained to seemingly no one.

"Why are you having so much trouble. Its not that tough you know." Ino replied in a calm tone as she was busy doing the exercise herself. "Just relax and don't think of anything else. You should not get frustrated and just concentrate."

Naruto heeded her advice and after some time he was able to get it straight. But Asuma told them that all of them will be continuing this until they can get leaves to spin on all ten of their fingers simultaneously and that they can continue to do this after there day is over.

Then they all began to discuss strategy and stuff which confused Naruto to no end. Then they all ran through some formations that were standard and Asuma provided them with some other formations, "I'm giving you the standard formation only, because its only your first day. From tommorow you will start to come up with your own designed formation that the enemy is not able to recognize easily."

Asuma told them in a serious tone, and Ino and Shikamaru nodded whereas Naruto was confused but nodded after seeing his teammates nod, "Now coming up with formations is not an easy task, you have to think about all its advantages and disadvantages for you to use it in the right situation. Coming up with a formation and perfect will take weeks if not months. So don't experiment on the field without solid grasp of it okay."

All of them nodded. After some time Asuma called it off and created two Kage Bunshins and they all split up for their one-on-one.

XxX

With Shikamaru

They both stopped in a clearing away from others. "Now Shikamaru, I will share my thoughts about your performance and some data I have on you." Shikamaru nodded. "Since you're the brains, so you should know by now that you are the brains of this team." Shikamaru nodded again knowing his responsibilities full well.

"So, we will be working on strategy. But when it comes to fight you are a liability." Asuma said with a serious face "Your reflexes are not good enough, your body is a little weak for a taijutsu battle. You will meet people that have enough brute force to break your clan's jutsu. And you cannot rely on that every time, 'cause its no guarantee that you will be able to catch your enemy in your jutsu."

"So, we will be working on your physical strength as well." Shikamaru groaned at that. "Troublesome." he mumbled to himself. Then Asuma proceeded to tell him how were they going to build his strength speed and reflexes.

XxX

With Ino

Asuma came to a halt reaching a clearing away from others. "So this is where we are going to train one-on-one?" Ino said coming to a stop after her sensei. Asuma nodded, "For today yes, but we can train wherever we want."

"Now, lets review your performance shall we?" Ino nodded "Alright." "Now from what I have read from your file and based on your performance today, I can say that you will play the role of info and support." Asuma began.

"What?" Ino shouted with a look of disbelief "Just info and support."

Asuma raised a hand to calm the kunoichi down. "If you don't understand the importance of information or support, then you shouldn't be a ninja." Ino put her head down in shame. "Do you understand what a little info like what time does the enemy lit a cigarette can do?"

Ino nodded. "Alright, no need to be down like that. And being support means you will have to fight on equal ground with your team." Asuma then tried to lighten up the mood, which worked.

Ino then looked up back to her normal mood again then Asuma proceeded "Now about your fighting style, you are good and can become much better. But, you're way too predictable, and thats dangerous. Shikamaru was reading you like a book, if he had his body to back him up, he would have won. We will be working on that." Asuma then proceeded to discuss with her while sparring on how to feint attacks and play with enemy's mind.

XxX

With Naruto

They were in the same clearing as before "Okay, since they are gone, lets start."

"Yatta! So, sensei what will we be learning today, some cool jutsu, or... or that jutsu that you use when you come and go."

Asuma laughed at the hyperactive blond's impatience "No, first we will review your performance." Naruto tilted his head in confusion before he realized what the chain smoker was saying.

"Alright. Lets get this over with so we can start to learn something new."

Asuma smiled and began "From what I can tell from your performance today. Your taijutsu is good, well, not very good if you are up against a taijutsu master, but good. Anyway I can see that you have a good grasp of basics but you're still a little sloppy with your stances that can only be improved via practice."

"And also you're not meant to be a taijutsu master, with your reserves even without your... tenant, are very large, so ninjutsu will be your forte." Naruto's face lit up at that piece of information. "So you will be the brawns of the team. You will be on the front in a battle as the main fighter on the team."

Naruto couldn't have been more happier. It served two purposes, first that he will be able to protect his friends as a shield for them, and second that he will become more stronger, as he would have to fight head-on.

"Okay, so now we have two different things for you to concentrate on, first being to corporate that tanto in your fighting style, and second which you won't like, being strategy." Naruto frowned. He did not want to do boring stuff. Seeing this, Asuma remembered what Hiruzen told him.

"And one more thing before you go, if you want Naruto to do something like reading books and stuff, just tell him it will look good on his personality, and people will recognize him as strong." Asuma laughed at that, dismissing the notion and himself from the room.

He decided to give it a try "If you do that, people will recognize you as Hokage material for sure." Asuma nearly face-faulted seeing it actually worked on the blond who had stars in his eyes.

Then they began to spar with their weapons in their hands. While keep discussing on how to effectively use the tanto.

XxX

After An Hour

Both Ino and Shikamaru came back panting heavily from where they were training just in time to see Asuma kick Naruto in the face. Both snickered at seeing the knucklehead flying. "So you came back." Asuma turned his attention towards the two who plopped down on the ground and smiled. "Alright Naruto, all of you rest for a little while and then we will go see what mission can we get."

Naruto did as he was told, he was also sweating profusely. So, he sat down near his teammates to rest for a while and they began to talk to each other getting to know each other better. So Asuma didn't interrupt them for quite some time. Now it was a little over noon, so he decided to interrupt and ask them to go to the barbecue restaurant.

But before he said something, they all heard a thunder coming from the west direction from where they were, before it disappeared. "What was that?" Ino asked out loud what her other two teammates were thinking. Asuma chuckled "That is Kakashi's way of scaring his what he calls 'cute little genin'. They must be having the test."

Naruto turned towards the jonin with hope in his eyes "Sensei, don't you have something cool like that." Shikamaru and Ino face-palmed hearing that.

Asuma chuckled nervously "Sooo," he drawled "anyone want to go to Ichiraku Ramen." He wanted to go to the barbecue restaurant but oh well, there goes that idea. Ino and Shikamaru sweat-dropped at the pathetic attempt to dodge the question. But Naruto was a different story altogether. Hearing the name of his favorite food, he instantly jumped to stand.

"Yeah! Lets go to Ichiraku ramen. The foods given to us by gods themselves." he then started walking off without caring if anyone followed. Ino and Shikamaru nearly face-faulted seeing it actually worked. But didn't 'cause of different reason. Ino not wanting her dress and her hair mess up more then they already were. And Shikamaru not because it would be troublesome to face-fault but because it would be too troublesome to get back up after the face-fault.

Asuma sighed in relief at successfully diverting the knucklehead blond's attention "Lets go then. Although why do I have the feeling that, I shouldn't have done that."

"You will find out soon enough." Shikamaru said sighing.

XxX

Half An Hour Later

Hokage Office

There sat a shinobi herald as the 'Kami no shinobi' to try and incinerate the object of his hatred by staring at them. Oh yes its the paperwork alright. Then there was a knock on his door. After a 'come in' with a tone of heavy relief from the Hokage, a scarecrow made his way in.

"Ah Kakashi, so what's the report." the older man asked.

"They passed. Although they are going to need to work on there teamwork." Said the man in the mask with his nose buried in an orange book.

"Good." The Hokage said with a pleased smile on his face. "Finally you accepted a team, after all these years." As they were conversing, a loud voice was heard, through out the village.

"WHAT THE HELL? WHO EATS THAT MUCH RAMEN?"

"I think Asuma is having fun with Naruto." Hiruzen mused as both men laughed at Asuma's predicament.

XxX

Two Month Later

Training Ground 10

After two months the three genin really got to know each others. Their teamwork and friendship improved greatly. They were now like a family Naruto never had. In terms of skill they have grown much since their first day. Shikamaru's body wasn't as weak as before. Ino wasn't as straightforward as before. And Naruto now used his tanto very well in combat.

And its been a nearly a month when Asuma started with Naruto on the wind manipulation. He was so happy when he found out that Asuma also had a wind affinity.

(Flashback)

"Now since you are able to fight with your tanto very easily, like its second nature. We will switch to another gear." Asuma told Naruto after their team training was finished.

Naruto tilted his head "What do you mean sensei?"

Asuma's hand went to his pouch and he pulled out a paper slip and gave it to Naruto. Naruto took the slip before looking up to Asuma and tilted his head in confusion.

"It's to determine your elemental affinity." Asuma explained. But Naruto tilted his head in confusion "Element what now?" Asuma face-faulted at this.

Then he proceeded to pick himself up "Guess I will have to start from the beginning, eh?! Okay, you know that there are five basic elements: Fire, Wind, Lightning, Earth and Water. Right?" His question was answered when he saw Naruto's hand rubbing the back of his neck sheepishly.

The chain-smoker face-palmed with a exaggerated sigh "Okay, there are five basic elements that I stated earlier. Most people's chakra lean towards one element which is easy for them to master than other elements. Like the Uchiha excel in fire style jutsu cause there element affinity is Fire."

Naruto nodded "So that's why Sasuke can perform those big fire balls. And that means he is already ahead of me in that department" Naruto said the last part in a near panicked voice to which Asuma nodded chuckling.

"Now transfer your chakra to this slip. If it catches fire, its fire nature. If it splits in two, its wind nature. If it wrinkles, its lightning nature. If it crumbles, its earth nature. and if it gets soggy, its water nature." Naruto hurriedly transfered his chakra in the slip which immediately split in two.

At this Asuma grinned widely "Congrats kid, you are like the second person in Konoha who have wind element. With first of course being me." Naruto grinned at the prospect of having the same element as his sensei. Asuma continued "Its a rarest element in all five nations and only Sunagakure have a decent number of Wind Style users. And its the single most offensive element. Perfect for your personality." Naruto was jumping up and down by this point.

Then he tossed two scrolls which read "Fuuton: Reppushou(Wind Style: Gale Palm)",and the second one read"Fuuton: Daitoppa(Wind Style: Great Breakthrough)."

"Now I want you to start with Fuuton: Reppushou(Wind Style: Gale Palm). Its a C-rank jutsu which can be used to knock people off. And if used in conjunction with kunai and shuriken, the weapons become more lethal as their velocity increases greatly.

Naruto shook his head in affirmative and then the two began to discuss how to perform the wind style jutsu.

(Flashback end)

They were now able to climb tree or wall. Which Asuma pounded into them nicely. He knew just how important these things were when it came to fighting. Even if they were normally stronger than the opponent, if they didn't knew how to fight on wall and water, they will be sitting duck. About a week ago...

(Flashback)

"Alright guys today we will do all our work here." Asuma took his team near the Hokage Monument and told them.

"Why here Asuma sensei?" Ino asked curiously.

Naruto took a moment from his sight seeing and turned towards them with his normal hyperactive attitude "Why do you think Ino? Of course because the next Hokage should be trained near the previous Hokage. Isn't it obvious?" Ino's eyebrow twitched.

"What kind of foolish obviousness is that you moron?" Ino shouted, but there was no real malice in her voice. Naruto had began to grow as a friend on her during her time with him.

Asuma laughed at his team "Maybe, maybe not. But you see today we will do sparring up there." He pointed towards the middle of the mountain. "Now that you are able to walk on the wall?"

Shikamaru's jaw dropped "But... But, that's too much work." Everyone laughed at the lazy Nara seeing how distraught he was at hearing that.

"Maybe, but tree climbing is not successful if you are not able to fight on a vertical surface for at least an hour." Asuma responded as his laughter died. "Alright lets get to it."

XxX

When Ino and Naruto were sparing which was Naruto without his tanto. It was clear to see that right now Naruto had an upper hand in the fight. There were two factors in play here, first being obvious that when it came to hand to hand combat, Naruto was always a little better than most of his peers. Second being the chakra reserves, Ino had nowhere near as much chakra as Naruto.

Ino came with a punch to Naruto's face who blocked and retaliated with a punch to gut which Ino blocked with her left hand, so Naruto jumped with a spin an came down with a kick to Ino's shoulder. Ino saw this coming and jumped back in order to gain some distance.

Naruto tried to cover the distance and lunged forward but the chakra he was using turned into wind elemental chakra subconsciously so there was a sudden burst of speed which he did not take into account and he slammed into Ino and both were sent falling to the ground from the cliff where they were fighting. Luckily they were not too high and Ino landed on top of Naruto.

Naruto groaned in pain but looked towards Ino in concern "Ino, are you alright? You aren't hurt badly are you?" Ino took note of their uh... position and stood up quickly.

"Yeah I'm alright." Ino replied "But, are you alright? You were the one that took the burnt. And what the hell was that?" Ino gestured towards the point where they fell from. "How did you move so fast?"

Naruto threw her a reassuring grin "Yeah I'm alright. It will heal up in no time." Then he too looked towards the point from where they fell "As for what was that, I have no idea."

Asuma and Shikamaru too reached near them by that time "Hey, you guys alright?" Asuma asked the two blonds.

"Yeah we're good Asuma sensei. But do you know what the heck happened with me back there?" Naruto asked the jonin.

Asuma thought for a moment and nodded "I may have an idea. I think when you pumped the extra chakra to jump towards Ino, you subconsciously turned it into wind chakra which gave you the thrust."

Naruto tilted his head in confusion, then a bulb lit in his mind when Asuma's words register. "Ah... so that's it. So you are saying that I can increase my speed if I channel wind chakra in my feet."

Asuma nodded "That's the gist of it. Although you need practice."

Shikamaru spoke up "Well, I think even Naruto can see at least that much." everyone laughed as Naruto pouted on that comment. 'Lazy ass' he mumbled to himself before joining the frey with his teammates in laughing.

(Flashback end)

Now Asuma had started on there water walking technique two days ago. And it really wasn't as hard as they previously thought. Since the basics were nearly the same as the tree walking technique.

"Hey Asuma sensei!" the resident whiskered boy called out to his sensei. Who was locked in mortal combat in a game of shogi. Whenever Asuma and Shikamaru played shogi, the blonds were free to do whatever they want, whether they sleep or train, it was up to them.

He remembered the first time Asuma had dragged him into the game...

(Flashback)

"Hey Naruto!" Asuma called the blond who was practicing Fuuton: Reppushou(Wind Style: Gale Palm) and Fuuton: Daitoppa(Wind Style: Great Breakthrough). Naruto looked towards his jonin sensei.

"What is it sensei?" Asuma waved his hand to signal for him to come over to him. When Naruto came running.

"Lets play a game of shogi." Asuma said as Shikamaru eyed Asuma as to ask 'Come again'. And Naruto being... well Naruto outright refused. "No way. That's too boring for someone as awesome as me."

But Asuma desperately needed a morale boost, after loosing yet another match with Shikamaru. Seriously, how can he not defeat the kid even a single time. This frustrated him to no end. "Its to see how are you doing in terms of strategy." Naruto was still too reluctant, so Asuma gave a final push with a smirk resting on his face "Besides Hokage are good at shogi. It goes to show how good they are in organizing the battlefield with the resources available to win."

That was it. Naruto moved so fast to sit against him that Shikamaru was knocked away from where he was sitting and then decided to lay wherever he landed. But that also was not to be. He collided with Ino who was laying there and enjoying the piece and quite. After that Naruto and Asuma proceeded with their match ignoring the plights coming from the pineapple haired boy.

Naruto surprised Asuma by some of his moves that were too unpredictable. But Asuma had plenty of time to recover and eventually won. He was hard pressed not to shout but still stood up and did a 'Yes!' with his body language. To which the blond boy pouted much to the amusement of his teammates.

(Flashback end)

Naruto by now knew for a fact that Asuma played with him to make himself feel better. Asuma without turning towards the blond boy replied "Yes Naruto."

"You know I have learned the two jutsu you gave me. So what do I do next." Asuma stopped for a moment and tapped his chin in a manner of thinking about what to do next with his hyperactive student. "Do you have any new cool jutsu you can teach me? Or how about you teach me that... ah..." Naruto scratched his head trying to remember something.

"Shunshin no Jutsu" Ino helped with a snicker. She knew by now what her fellow blond's preferences were.

"Yeah, what she said." Naruto said with a happy tone. Asuma just chuckled.

"Alright, no I'm not teaching you Shunshin no Jutsu but I have two things for you to do." Asuma paused as the blond's expression changed from a developing frown to hope. When he was sure he had the boy's full attention he continued "First is that practice the jutsu given to you more." Seeing Naruto frown Asuma proceeded to explain.

"Your hand seals are slow for it to be used effectively in battle. And simple techniques such as these should be mastered to a degree where you don't need hand seals." Naruto was looking at him like a gaping fish.

'So, Jutsu without hand seals? That would be so cool.' Seeing Naruto satisfied with the explanation Asuma proceeded.

"You will have to do the jutsu like a thousand times to get it without hand seals. Then again, you have your Kage Bunshins to help you. You should also learn how to do all academy jutsu without hand seals too." He looked at the two other two students. "That goes for you two as well." Ino nodded whereas Shikamaru groaned and mumbled something about 'too troublesome and time wasting' and something about 'not enough time for cloud watching'.

Ino smacked Shikamaru in the head "Quit complaining, you lazy ass." Shikamaru groaned "Troublesome women."

"You say something Shika-kun?" Ino said in sweet voice with her eyes closed and a sweet smile "Perhaps you want to repeat that in front of your mom." Shikamaru paled at that thought.

Naruto laughed at his teammates normal 'interaction' "Come on Ino, you are scaring the shit out of Shika." Ino turned towards Naruto and both began to laugh.

"You are right Naruto. Just mention her mom, and he turns white as a sheet." Everyone laughed as Shikamaru sighed and mumbled about 'troublesome teammates.'

"Hahaha... alright," Asuma said as he controlled himself "speaking of which, Naruto" Naruto turned towards Asuma in a questioning gaze "how is your practice with the extra speed by adding wind chakra going?"

"Its going well, ever since you gave me those damn weights," Naruto pouted "I've been able to get at least a little control."

"Well I gave you those weights to increase your normal speed and reflexes, so the rest of your body can keep up with the speed of your legs given by the thrust of air." Asuma tried to explain "Besides your weights are nearly the tenth the amount of weights what Gai makes his student wear." Naruto's jaw dropped at hearing that. As did Ino's and Shikamaru's.

"WHAT?" all three genins shouted together. Asuma just laughed at his three flabbergasted genin "That's right, so now don't complain." Naruto couldn't do anything but nod dumbly.

"Now that that's out of the way, the second thing I want you to do Naruto is that you start practicing cutting a leaf in half. So we can move to more advanced stuff." Naruto tilted his head showing that he was confused, so Asuma decided to elaborate by showing him. He picked up a nearby leaf and channeled his chakra cutting the leaf cleanly in half in the process.

Naruto's eyes widened before they began to glow. "Wow! That's so totally awesome Asuma sensei. How did you do that?" Asuma smiled his student eagerness to learn things. Naruto had always been like this, always ready to learn anything he had to teach, well... at least until it didn't require him to read that is. But he really was an incredible student to have, if not the most bright.

"I cut it using my chakra of course. Wind is not only for gusts and pressure. Its also used for cutting everything that stands in its way. That's why wind is the most offensive element among all others." Naruto nodded furiously and picked up a leaf and started channeling chakra through it, only to find nothing happened.

"Hey! How come I can't do it?" Naruto complained in a childish manner.

"It take months if not years to get it down kid. Now quit complaining and just get to your exercise. Also use clones to do it." Naruto frowned then nodded and created fifty clones to assist him.

XxX

Outside Hokage's Office

Team ten was about to make their way inside to go get a mission when they saw familiar faces coming out of the office.

"Hey Kurenai-sensei, Kiba, Shino, Hinata, here to get a mission." Naruto chimed.

"Yeah, and we got an escort mission for someone close to Daimyo." Kiba informed the group in front of him with a grin as to provoke them "What'd you say about that, huh dobe?"

Kurenai tried to suppress her laughter and winked at Naruto. Team ten had met Kurenai on many occasions as she talked to Asuma a lot, but they had never met her team for like sit together and do something.

Naruto tried to understand why Kurenai winked at him when a memory came back to him.

(Flashback)

Asuma and his team entered a the Akimichi Barbecue Restaurant after completing their mission. Naruto had a scowl on his face. "That was the worst mission ever." Ino and Shikamaru laughed but completely agreed with Naruto.

They sat down on a table and placed there orders. "Now that wasn't so bad Naruto." Asuma turned to Naruto and laughed.

"That wasn't bad! THAT WASN'T BAD! If that wasn't bad then I don't know what is bad. That was the absolute worst." Naruto shouted.

"Oh, Naruto-kun what are you so riled up about." Everyone turned to see Kurenai standing there.

"Hey Kurenai-sensei. Just about today's mission." Naruto sighed.

"Oh! What was your mission today?" Kurenai asked as she took seat near Asuma. They told her about their mission and Kurenai started to laugh much to Naruto's chagrin. Then a glint came across Naruto's eyes.

"Hey Kurenai-sensei!" Kurenai looked up and immediately identified that glint. She knew someone was going to be targeted by one of his pranks. Her theory was proven correct the moment she answered the next question "Have your team gotten that assignment." Kurenai shook her head.

"I have an idea." Then she listened to his explanation. In the end she was also happy that she listened to him.

(Flashback end)

Naruto was rolling on the ground clutching the sides of his stomach "Oh... oh... oh, Kurenai-sensei, you are the best, hahaha...". At first Shikamaru and Ino didn't understand but soon realization dawned upon them, and they began laughing hysterically.

"Hey!" Kiba exclaimed loudly frowning "What's so funny you morons?" And Akamaru yipped in agreement to his human partner. Even Hinata was looking at team ten laughing with a curious uh.. blush!? If that was possible. And Shino was stoic as ever but if you try to focus he raised an eyebrow as well.

"Oh nothing Kiba. Hehehe... nothing at all. Just make sure you take care of Tora-chan okay. Hahaha..." Naruto said suppressing his laughter for a moment and then started laughing again. Asuma dragged them inside before Kiba could ask more questions.

After a while a loud voice was heard across the village "THAT'S TORA. THAT'S TORA. YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME."

XxX

Hokage's Office

"Now Asuma's team ten, what will you do next? Hmmm... there's babysitting an elder's grandson, shopping in neighboring village, painting fence and..." As Hiruzen was stating the missions, Naruto interrupted.

"No! No! No! No thank you!" He shouted "I want to do, you know, more incredible mission like myself." Asuma sighed heavily 'I suppose it was about time for this.'

Iruka's eyebrow twitched who was sitting next to the Sandaime. "You idiot! You are just a rookie! Everyone starts off with simple duties and work there way up." Naruto didn't want to hear any of this.

"But, we keep getting the crappies duties ever." Asuma bonked his head. "Be quite you."

Hiruzen turned towards Naruto "It seems that I have to explain what duties are all about." The the old Kage continued his rant about who gets what missions and stuff "You guys just recently became genin, therefore D rank missions are perfect for you, so..." The old man blinked when he saw Naruto was sitting down turned towards his sensei.

"Yesterday we had barbecue, so lets go to Ichiraku today..." Naruto was ranting about food. A tick mark appeared on Hiruzen's forehead.

"Hey! Listen!" He shouted. Asuma looked up and rubbed his neck sheepishly "I-I appolozige for that."

"Gee! All you do is lecture me." He told the Hokage "But you know what? I'm not the trouble making brat you think I am!" Naruto turned around still sitting with his cheeks puffed.

"Alright." Everyone turned to Hokage "If you want it that badly, I will give you a C rank mission." Naruto's face lit up immediately.

"Yes, dattebayo!" He shouted with excitement. Ino was also excited by the prospect of getting there first C-rank mission. But there teammate was nowhere near as excited.

a) Fuuton: Reppushou(Wind Style: Gale Palm): Rank: C; Short to Mid Range; Supplementary Jutsu

A simple technique that when the users hands are clapped together, wind is compressed and transformed into a powerful gale. This technique, when used as an isolated attack has the power to easily knock over a human. Though the true value comes from using it together with projectile weapons like shuriken or kunai. Their speed, power, and ability to wound or even kill are all increased several times.

b) Fuuton: Daitoppa(Wind Style: Great Breakthrough): Rank: C; Short to Mid Range; Supplementary and Offensive Jutsu

A technique that creates a gust of wind, whose scale and usage varies depending on the user. If used by a superior shinobi, it has enough destructive power to knock down a large tree. The wind from the squall can blow away all things in the user's line of sight. The technique can also be used in the form of a devastation stream of wind expelled from the user's mouth.

A/n: So thats the second chapter.

Thanks to everyone that reviewed me or P. messaged me. That means very much to me. The response was good, at least for me it was good.

So I hope you liked it. Tell me what you think about the chapter and reviews are always welcome.

Next chapter will be their first C-rank mission. Until next time.