It had been two weeks since team 10 had become an official genin team. Asuma had, against the advice of his father, tried to give his team the bell test. That test happened to be a complete disaster as far as a test of teamwork could be, or it was a great example depending on how you looked at it. Naruto had, after feeling that something was fishy when Asuma mentioned the test, mind hacked Asuma to get the information on the test. The next day when Asuma gave out the test Naruto had telekinetically grabbed the two bells and then tossed them to his teammates.
Asuma, although he was upset for not following his father’s advice, couldn’t be any happier with the genin team he had gotten. Each of his team members had a solid foundation of skills from which they could draw from. Also, their skills for the most part meshed real well together although there was a great deal of redundancy. Ino and Shikamaru, with how the team trained themselves; would be able to paralyze and disorganize their enemies. This attack pattern allowed Naruto to quickly finish the main body off without wasting a large amount of energy as the other two picked off the few who escaped.
As to what each teammate “specialized” in, Asuma had to smirk at the thought. Ino, along with her family jutsus, seemed to focus on genjutsu along with a few minor medical techniques. Shikamaru, when he was motivated to train, focused on his family jutsus and surprisingly fuinjutsu. Apparently there was something about the art of sealing that intrigued the lazy boy like shogi did. As for Naruto, He spent a good deal of his time working with his bloodline and taijutsu with a little ninjutsu thrown in.
The reason why Naruto didn’t use as much ninjutsu as he would like was because of energy demands. According to what Naruto told his teammates, his Psyker powers took up a good deal of mental energy. On average a major telepathic technique would take the equivalent power of your average C ranked jutsu, while telekinetic techniques could take up to average B or even A level power to use. Now while mental energy was theoretically unlimited, the more of it you used the more fatigued you feel and the harder it is to concentrate. Thus Naruto found himself more than once suffering from ‘chakra exhaustion’ due to lack of mental energy, unlike most ninjas who suffered exhaustion due to lack of stamina.
Asuma stopped his musings as he led his team down the hall of the Hokage tower on the mission floor. Over the last two weeks team 10 had completed 40 D-ranked missions and were this close to rioting. Well, Ino and Naruto were this close to rioting as Shikamaru was only slightly annoyed. Not wanting to see a lack of discipline among his otherwise stellar team Asuma opened his mouth before his father could offer a mission, “Asuma, leader of team 10, here and requesting a C-ranked mission.” Sarutobi smiled at his son’s team and said. “With team 10’s mission record I think you can handle a C-ranked mission, you are to-”
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