Kakashi and his team of Genin had been sent on a B-C ranked mission nearing the border of the Fire territory. A band of raiders had repeatedly struck homesteads and a small township in the area. While no one had yet been killed, the locals had banded together to pay for Konoha to take care of the threat, and to recover some stolen goods.
Over the last three hours team seven had been watching the outlaws' base. Having seen no opponents that may be a problem, and Naruto getting impatient, Kakashi decided that they would strike at night in a stealthy manner to avoid direct confrontation.
"But why can't we just call them all out and beat them up!" Naruto whined. "I bet I could take them all out at once, no sweat!"
"Naruto," Kakashi admonished him, "Sometimes as a ninja you will have to enter a dangerous situation where such an action would get you and your team killed." His eye curved in a smile. "However, this is not one of those situations. But it's good practice."
Soon after sunset they split up, each succeeded in silently making their own way through the house, knocking out every thug they came across. Sasuke and Naruto eventually met on one side of the house.
"Hey Sasuke, I've taken out five guys so far, how many did you get?" Naruto asked, amicably.
"Seven." Sasuke replied, not even looking at Naruto.
"rrrrrrrgh!" Naruto got steamed at this. "I'll catch up to him! I know I can!" he thought. Naruto got his chance at the main hallway joining the two halves of the house together.
"Watch this," he said to Sasuke, pointing half way down the hall at two guys who he'd just spotted that were standing in front of a door. One was reading a book (icha-icha series!), and the other looked like he'd managed to fall asleep standing up.
Kakashi had met with Sakura on the other side of the house. They were peeking down the same hallway past the inattentive guards and had seen Naruto show up.
"That Naruto," whispered Sakura, "what does he think he's going to do? He can't sneak up on those guards out here in the hallway."
Kakashi just waited.
Bang! A Smoke bomb went off engulfing one of the guards.
"Reh?!" Exclaimed the other guard, waking up, as a striking noise emanated from the cloud. That was all he had time to do before Naruto, yelling, launched himself at the remaining guy and they both went crashing through the wall, next to the door.
The dust cleared with Naruto sitting on the guards back and smiling idiotically.
"Naruto! This was supposed to be a stealth mission," Sakura lectured as she poked her head around the hole. "Uh…"