King Rylie, Queen Matilda, Fred, and his friends hurriedly entered the castle. They left Naruto and he rest of Konoha 9 to protect the castle alongside the castle's guards. While Fred and his friends set up the traps, King Rylie and his wife gathered the castle staff in a room without windows.

Fred set up a trap by the entrance of the castle – a weighted net would drop onto whoever entered through the palace doors – and hid nearby to watch. Velma set up the next trap in the hallway with the portraits of the reigning monarchs – the trip wire will be tripped opening panels in the wall and launching guns outfitted with arrows – and hid in one of the rooms in the hallway. Daphne set up her trap in the throne room – if the opposing forces stepped on the net, the net would lift and carry the people into the air – and hid behind the throne. Scooby and Shaggy set up their trap in the kitchen – dropping pots and pans from the ceiling onto the heads of the opposing forces – and hid in the pantry area.

"We got company!" Naruto yelled a couple hours later.

Thousands upon thousands of people started charging the castle, wore armor and crystal pendants, and had swords and shields. Konoha 9 waited by the moat for the horde of people to reach them.

As the people reached them, Sakura gathered chakra in her fist and released it in contact with the ground. Ground that is affected by Sakura's technique fractured and sent small, flower petal-size particles into the air. This technique buried quite a few of the people charging the castle and injured others.

"Remind me to not enrage Sakura," Naruto muttered to himself.

A man transformed into a hawk to avoid Sakura's technique and flew towards the castle only to be stopped by Choji's Partial Expansion Technique Both Arms who used the technique to slam the hawk into the castle walls. The hawk transformed back into the man and slumped onto the ground unconscious.

Sasuke used flames to create a dragon and sent it towards the charging army. The dragon turned various people and grass to ash. Naruto spawned several Shadow Clones and used his chakra to manipulate an external source of wind and create several blades of wind to decapitate various opposing soldiers.

"Get back!" Shikamaru yelled to the Konoha 9.

As the Konoha 9 retreated, Shikamaru launched several smoke bombs which denoted creating a cloud of smoke. Suddenly, a series of explosions occurred causing Naruto to lose his balance. A handful of people died during the explosions.

"I hid a few exploding tags in the clouds of smoke," Shikamaru explained to his allies.

Kiba and his partner jumped in and used Fang over Fang to kill a couple of the opposing forces who were getting their bearings after the explosion.

Suddenly, the opposing forces scattered and made room for their leader – a skinny man who were a silk black robe and a crystal pendant – to come through. The leader's crystal started glowing, and the leader unleashed a scream. The Konoha 9 instinctively had to cover their ears or else suffer hearing loss. This allowed the opposing forces who wore ear protection to be able to enter the castle.

By the time Naruto and his friends realized what was happening, a hundred of the opposing forces had entered the castle. Naruto spawned several Shadow Clones and began punching and kicking various opposing forces. Ino used the Mind Body Disturbance Technique to place her chakra into the nervous system of several of the opposing forces and to start killing various opposing forces. This confusion stopped the opposing forces from proceeding with the invasion. One of the opposing forces that was under the influence of Ino's chakra silently walked up behind the opposing force's leader and silently decapitated the leader with his sword.

The opposing forces immediately retreated a couple hundred yards away and waved a white flag.

to be continued