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'I really feel sorry for those poor kids who have Kakashi as a Jonin-sensei.' he mused whimsically. The silver-haired, cyclopean jonin was basically going to pass his team no matter what they did due to all three of them being Clan Heirs; even his status as the 'Hero of the Sharingan' and the last living pupil of the Yondaime Hokage wouldn't stand up to the backlash of making the Last Uchiha and the Inuzuka and Aburame Heirs flunk back to the Academy.
Still, he was probably going to put them through hell, even if he couldn't fail them. From what he'd gathered, the Uchiha boy had an ego problem, so he'd likely go along with his usual Bell Test, which was his prerogative. Asuma still thought that it was a bit much for fresh genin to be expected to 'look underneath the underneath' at that age. He knew it had taken Kakashi a few years of active service to learn that particular lesson, despite being a genius, so why he expected kids to do better at twelve he didn't know.
"OK you three, time's up!" he called as he extinguished his cigarette. "Have you managed to pull a plan together?"
"Yup-dattebayo!" Naruto declared confidently.
Sakura and Ino were less confident than their teammate, but still certain about the fact they had a plan. The looks of determination on their faces were actually somewhat adorable.
"That's good to hear." Asuma said in amusement. "Need any prep time?"
"Err...no...I don't think so?" Sakura said with an uncertain frown. "Naruto?"
"Any trap I could make, even a chunin would be able to detect and destroy in the forest." Naruto shook his head. "I'm good at traps in places like the village proper, but less so in forests; only good enough to catch rabbits and the like."
Asuma made a note to work on that with him. If they passed his test.
Reaching into his pouch, Asuma withdrew a simple timer clock and started fiddling with it. "It's two right now. You three have the next four hours to try and land one solid hit on me. You three ready?"
The genin nodded and took combat stances, ready to move at a moment's notice.
"Alright then...start." Asuma said and pressed one final button on the timer before placing it on the ground. In an instant, the three genin vanished into the trees.
'Nice. I was half-expecting Naruto to charge at me right from the get-go, but looks like he's done more than train his jutsu over the past year.' the jonin half-smirked as he held himself in an easy stance. It would probably take the three a couple of minutes before they would possibly be ready to attack-
With a shout, three copies of Naruto charged out of the woods to his left.
One ran through several handsigns and shouted, "[Doton: Doshakuzure]!" before a wave of mud erupted from his feet and flew across the ground towards Asuma, who automatically leapt to the side to avoid it. This led him into the angle of the second Naruto copy, who fired off a [Doton: Gansetsukon] barrage at him.
"Fūton: Daitoppa!" Asuma intoned, using only one handsign, Tiger, to invoke the technique. This powered down the technique enough that it didn't smash the clones while still possessing enough power to scatter all of the flying spears.
'Wait...where's the last one...?' the jonin wondered, looking around quickly. 'I can't see it, so...below?!'
He leapt back just in time to avoid a large rock shooting out from the ground where he'd been standing seconds before. The [Dangan] was almost three-quarters of Asuma's height, which made him sweatdrop.
'I know I said 'don't hold back' and 'anything goes', but that's ridiculous!' he thought in alarm. Asuma jerked his head to the side as a yell came from his left.
"[Suiton: Yūdachi]!" what had to be the real Naruto shouted. Moments later, eight darts of water formed and shot at Asuma.
"Fūton: Reppūshō!" the Jonin clapped his hands together, sending a gale of wind towards the incoming water darts. Reppūshō, or Gale Palm, was a fairly underrated C-Rank Fūton Jutsu that was perfect for deflecting groups of light-weight projectiles like this.
Naruto smirked as he finished the next series of handsigns though. "[Katon: Hotarubi]!"
He spat out a large stream of small fireballs at Asuma, which just so happened to pass through his Reppūshō, enlarging them by a fair amount. Wide-eyed, Asuma scrambled back to avoid the fireballs, now the size of apples, as they detonated in a rippling wave. Had he been caught in that, even as a jonin, he wouldn't have walked away without at least a minor injury.
Dodging again (and wasn't that becoming tiresome?) Asuma avoided another [Doshakuzure] from what he guessed had to be an Iwa Bunshin before he dodged another [Dangan] from the second clone. As he landed, the jonin leapt away instantly, just avoiding the soil crumbling beneath him to reveal a pit beneath the thin lid that had concealed it.
'How the...?! Must be Doton: Otoshinana.' he thought as he fell back. 'He must have his third clone travelling underground using Doton: Dochū Eigyo, Doton: Moguragakure or Doton: Iwagakure. Where he would learn the last one is beyond me, but it's possible given his weird 'gamer' powers.'
Asuma decided that he'd let the kid have enough for now, it was about time he started fighting back. He couldn't let Naruto have it entirely his own way, after all. Forming the Bird Handsign, he fired back.
"Fūton: Kūdan! (Wind Style: Air Bullets!)" He growled before firing off a barrage of compressed air spheres from his mouth, aimed right at the two Iwa Bunshin. They struck them and shattered the Rock Clones into pieces.
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