Beasts Within

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or Prince of Tennis. I do not own anything besides the original characters that are included in the fanfic.

All the Jinchuuriki are around 12-15 years old to stay within the middle school category along with the rest of the PoT cast. I know that the ages are wrong; I'm just making them fit into the storyline. All of the canon characters will most likely be OOC considering I can't stay to a certain personality of a canon character no matter what I do. The Jinchuuriki have total control of their Bijuu but can still talk to them whenever. When they release the chakra of their Bijuu they become stronger of course and their voices are a mixture of their voice and the bijuu they contain, therefore 'Demon Enhanced Speaking' when they do activate their powers.

"Chat" Normal talking

'Chat' Thinking

'Chat' Telepathy between Jinchuuriki

"Chat" Demon enhanced speaking

Tail 14: Kyuubi and Shukaku

Naruto's Rescue

A few days had passed, and Naruto was bored. He was walking around his village silently trying to get out before the rest of the village woke up. Luck wasn't on his side as a few ninja coming back from a mission saw him and started chasing after him, dragging others into the chase as well. The group followed Naruto into a dead end where he was trapped and in their mercy.

Naruto looked back to see that the group chasing him had weapons in their hands. He was scared of what they would do to him this time. He didn't have much time to think as the group charged at him quickly.

He could only close his eyes tightly and hope for the pain to be over as quickly as possible.

When he didn't feel anything hurting him after a minute, he opened his eyes slightly before his eyes opened all the way in surprise. In front of him was the girl from the lake earlier, and she was holding back all of the villagers by lashing her whip in front of the group.

"You alright?" she asked while flicking her whip at another villager who stepped a bit too close to them.

Naruto could only nod in response but realized that she couldn't see it before he muttered out a 'yes.' He could hear the girl sigh in relief before he heard her say, "That's good to hear. I was hoping the villagers would be much kinder than this. After all…you are protecting them from the fox aren't you?"

"That kid is nothing but a demon!" one of the villagers yelled.

With a sneer, the girl pulled her arm back before lashing her whip towards the villager and wrapping it around him before dragging him back to her. "Listen here," she said with a frown, "He is not the demon you hear me. He is just the prison that holds the demon back. You may not know this but as soon as you kill him, the demon will be let free to roam. I'm sure you don't want that right?" she said with a smirk and a sly look in her eyes.

The villagers shook in fear before turning around and high-tailing it out of there.

Rose scoffed before turning her attention towards Naruto and asking, "Are you sure you're alright? You're not hurt are you?" she asked while feeling around his arms and legs for any injuries.

"I'm fine thank you," Naruto stuttered out. "Why did you help me? You know I'm a Jinchuuriki," he asked staring at the girl.

Rose looked up with a small smile and said, "Because…I'm just like you in a way." She stood up before holding her hand out towards Naruto and saying, "Let's get out of here. You can stay in my home until we get everyone alright?"

Naruto could only nod in agreement and took her hand before walking out of the village towards Rose's house in the forest.

Gaara's Rescue

Gaara walked throughout the village he called 'home' even though it was nothing like one. The people feared him and his Bijuu. Even his own family feared him enough to keep away from him. He noticed a few children behind him gathering up and planning, but he paid no mind to it and ignored it as usual.

After a while of walking, he came across a playground where a large group of children were waiting with smirks on their faces. Gaara looked towards their hands to see rocks as well as small shuriken and kunai made for the Genin trainees. He raised an eyebrow as he saw the kids raise their hands before throwing the items at Gaara.

The sand around Gaara immediately went to protect him by creating a shield around his figure.

A few ninja who had a grudge against the boy showed up and told the other children to stand back.

Gaara thought that the ninja would help him and let down his sand shield a moment…but that was his downfall as the ninja took their chance and sprinted toward the boy throwing a kunai into the shield that went by Gaara's arm creating an inch-deep cut along it.

Gaara saw the blood and widened his eyes in fear before his emotions went out of control, and the sand started to go toward the ninja and villagers. He couldn't stop the sand no matter what he did and waited for the screams of the dying to reach his ears. He watched as the sand got closer and closer to the villagers and didn't notice the shadow lurking behind him.

He noticed it too late when he saw arms snaking around his neck. Gaara was about to force the sand to attack the unknown person until the arms snaked around his figure in a hug.

He immediately relaxed into the embrace, and the sand stopped attacking the Sand villagers. Gaara and the villagers turned to look at the girl who helped stopped the sand.

Gaara widened his eyes at the sight of the girl that his group of friends had met earlier. He could feel her hands moving to his hair to slowly pet his head. He relaxed even more as he heard her soothing words, "Don't worry about it. I'll protect you. Always, I will always protect you. You don't need to worry about anything anymore. Just relax. Relax and take a nice sleep alright…" He couldn't help but fall asleep with her soothing words in his ear.

Rose smiled when she saw Gaara close his eyes before drifting off to his dreamland. She stood up with the boy in her arms and glared at the villagers who caused the boy pain. She snarled saying, "Hurt this boy again, you'll meet me again…but in a different manner than this," she said quickly moving a hand to her whip and lashing it out towards the nearest ninja to scrape his face.

They all started to run away from the girl who smirked at their running backs. She turned her sight towards Gaara and saw the wound. She quickly sprinted to her home in the forest and met up with Naruto, the newest addition to her house for a week, who had just finished hunting for some food.

Naruto gasped as soon as he saw his friend and went up ahead to prepare the first aid kit for when Rose got there.

When Rose entered the door, she set Gaara down on the couch in the living room and set to work on bandaging his wound. The two conscious people in the room smiled at their third housemate.

Author's Note: On my profile is a poll for whichever story you people want me to work on. Included on the poll are six of the stories I'm currenty working on including: Dragon's Master, Half-Breed, and four other new stories whose summaries are on my profile page. Please vote and I'll get started on writing those when summer vacation comes around. I wil start posting them as soon as I finish posting up Beasts Within. The poll will be up for however long until all those stories are good to be posted. Please vote and hope you enjoyed the chapter~