While Sasuke, Sakura, and Ino were running around like a trio of chickens with their heads cut off trying to snatch a bell from their potential sensei's belt, Team Ten was relaxing on Training Ground 10, having already gotten that particular test out of the way. Sarutobi Asuma, having been a student of Utatane Koharu, his father's former teammate and former student of the Nidaime, was also entitled to use the bell test. Unlike Kakashi who had used it as an opportunity to torture his prospective students before failing them when they failed to meet his expectations, Asuma had set the meeting time at a reasonable hour and showed up on time.
After watching the boys get the objective of the test and band together, he had stopped the test before he was put in an embarrassing situation thanks to the rather ingenious plan his new students had come up with on the fly, and informed them that they'd passed. They were now spending a bit of time relaxing together, and getting to know each-other before Asuma headed back and informed his father that his team had passed, and looked like they would make a rather exceptional capture team in the future. As Shikamaru watched the clouds that drifted by overhead, and Chouji sat next to him chowing down on a bag of chips, his third student who was not Yamanaka Ino as he had half expected it to be up until a couple days ago, but the Yondaime's son and Jinchuriki of the Kyuubi Uzumaki Naruto instead, sat twitching with a somewhat impatient look on his face. From the looks of things, the boy was completely incapable of sitting still.
That reminded him. He would have to have a talk with the boy later about what looked to be becoming the child's signature Jutsu. While the normal Kage Bunshin Jutsu wasn't a forbidden technique and was known and sometimes used by most of the higher-level Jounin, the Taju Kage Bunshin Jutsu had been forbidden for a reason. That reason had been the fact that it was pretty much a suicide Jutsu for anyone who wasn't a Jinchuriki. There were no studies on the effects of repeated use of the Jutsu available, since for everyone besides the Uzumaki boy, there had been no repeated use of said Jutsu, which meant that he had no idea as to the potential and possibly catastrophic consequences of repeated use.
"Well, that's it for the day. I'd best be going to inform the Hokage you passed before he marks you down as a fail." Asuma said as he dusted the grass off of the back of his pants. "Meet me back here tomorrow at Nine A.M. for training and your first mission."
Naruto's head jerked up and an excited look crossed his face at the mention of the word mission, Shikamaru muttered "Troublesome", and Chouji briefly paused in his snacking. Smiling at his new students' antics, he left.
Meanwhile, on Training Ground 7:
"Here forehead, you need this more than I do." Ino said as she followed Sasuke's lead and handed her lunch over to Sakura who had been tied to the stump.
It was in that moment, that the sky darkened, thunder clouds appeared spitting out lightning, and Hatake Kakashi popped up out of nowhere with a scowl on his face. "You..." the Jounin started before shifting his expression to a sunny smile which was apparent despite the fact that a mask was covering half his face, and his hitai-ate was covering half of what was left, and saying "PASS!"
Sasuke smirked at his victory, proud of his accomplishment and the fact that he was one step closer to defeating his brother and avenging his clan. The smirk slowly vanished as the exact situation he was in began to sink in...
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Sasuke screamed when he finally realized exactly what he'd just gotten himself into.
Over on Training Ground Ten:
"Did you hear something?" Naruto asked, still twitching in place like he usually did when Kiba wasn't there to fight with when they skipped, and he couldn't pull a prank because he didn't have the materials to do so.
"You mean besides Uchiha Sasuke's cry of utter despair upon realizing that he's stuck with his two most rabid fangirls for at least a year?" Shikamaru asked. "Nope, nothing at all."
"So, you guys wanna hang out at my place?" Chouji asked as he finished his bag of barbecue flavored chips.
"Can I really?" Naruto asked.
"Since you're my teammate, I don't see why not." Chouji replied.
Naruto jumped up and shouted "YAAAAAAAY! This is the best team ever!"
"Tch, troublesome." Shikamaru muttered.
