Naruto was not sleepy. But, his teammates were. It was 5:30 in the morning and the pair of them were constantly yawning. No, he was not jealous. He was only annoyed. Why did they have to yawn in front of him anyways? Were they mocking him?

Before Naruto could think any further, Asuma appeared in a swirl of leaves.

"Good morning, little genins." He said, far too cheerful for this time in the morning.

Shikamaru yawned, Ino's eyes twitched and Naruto stared at him. Ah, he supposed they were not used to training this early then.

"So." He started. "Generally, newly assigned genins have to take a test to make it certain that they can work as a team but, I do things differently." He said.

"Differently how?" Ino asked, ever so curious.

"I am putting you on a provisionary period of one month. If you perform well as a team, I will officially accept you as my team." He replied.

"Did you call us here, at this hour, to tell us this?" Shikamaru asked in a surprisingly threatening tone.

"Of course not." Asuma scoffed. "We will be having a survival training right now, to see how strong you actually are." Asuma glanced at the clock in his hands, set it down, said "Start." and promptly disappeared in a poof of smoke.

The three genin were still standing there, confused.

"You have three hours to land a hit on me." An echo came from the trees behind them. This stirred them into motion, and they ran the other side.

X-X

Ino was weary of Naruto. Shikamaru and her had talked to their fathers about Naruto. While Shikamaru's father had told him to do what he likes and not follow the crowd, Ino's father was not happy with the team placement. He had warned her explicitly to not use any of their clan jutsu on Naruto. None the less, she would have to judge him for herself before making any decisions.

"So, whats the plan?" Ino asked.

Naruto raised his hand in the air and a bird came to sit on it.

"Asuma is far from here, we have plenty time to plan." he said.

"How do you know that?" Shikamaru questioned.

"I can talk to the birds." He said. And, with this, an awkward silence was bestowed on them.

"Ahem." Ino broke the silence awkwardly. "I think we should rely on Shikamaru's plan, that is kinda his thing." She said.

Naruto shrugged and they looked towards Shikamaru expectantly.

X-X

Asuma was surrounded by trees, relaxing and smoking without any concerns. He was holding a cigar in his hands and was reaching towards the lighter from his other hand. As soon as he got the hold of the lighter and both his hands got busy, a concentrated gust of wind, with a cry of, "Wind style: Gale palm." Was thrown towards him. As the dust settled, they could only see a shattered log of wood.

"Substitution." Shikamaru murmured. "One more." he continued, and on his command, Naruto released one more Gale palm towards a seemingly unsuspecting Asuma, only to get the same results as before.

Seeing the opportunity, Naruto engaged Asuma in a taijutsu battle, while Shikamaru tried to get behind their sensei silently. "Shadow possession jutsu." he said, as a thread of shadow moved towards Asuma. Just as the shadow was going to bind him, Asuma jumped and dodged Naruto's punch simultaneously. Accepting their defeat, Shikamaru and Naruto retreated. Or so Asuma thought.

Just when he turned back, two shuriken came towards him. Seeing Ino from the corner of his eyes, he dodged them and tried to flip backwards. Only to realize that he was stuck. Looking down, he saw a strand of shadow connecting him and Shikamaru with the shadow of the now embedded shuriken working as an enhancer for the shadow.

"Shadow possession jutsu. Success." Shikamaru said, almost smugly.

Just as he tried to overpower the bind, a jaw shattering punch connected with his face, and he was promptly knocked out.

X-X

Asuma woke up with a groan. That boy's punch were hard. Looking around, he realized he was still in the same training ground. Sitting up straight and looking around, he saw the three genin enjoying their food. When their eyes met, a quick, "We won." came from all of them.

"I suppose you did." Asuma said, a bit grumpily.

X-X

AN: yeah, Naruto's punches are strong, they are pseudo- senjutsu empowered. And no, team 10 is not jonin level. Asuma was just playing around.

Do you guys want the classic mission to wave or an original mission before the chunin exams?