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 17: She's What?

A few years had passed since they had all met. They were all around the ages of seven, eight, and nine now. They had stayed at Rose's home for about two years, and like Rose had promised, she had trained them to defend themselves.

They each excelled in their own training with Rose's shadow clones and were very able to fend for themselves now. They were even able to talk to their Bijuus thanks to Rose throwing them over a waterfall ledge without them knowing how to walk on water at first. After meeting with the Bijuu within each of them, the Jinchuuriki were able to actually have a nice civilized talk and figure out the reason why they went into the real world in the first place.

It was the week where the nine Jinchuurikis would leave back to their original villages. They all felt sad to leave the home and the girl that treated them like humans instead of beasts. They grew closer to the girl and sometimes accidently called her 'Everlasting Flower' because of her position in the ninja world.

She used a henge in order to transform herself into a different and older look in order to earn money to keep the house running and away from tax collectors which they all seemed to hate for some odd reason…

"It was nice spending time with all my brothers and sisters," Rose commented walking with all of the Jinchuuriki one last time before they left her.

"It was nice getting to know you as well," Utakata commented with a smile and a small bow of his head.

"We'll all visit whenever we can!" Fu yelled happily shaking Rose's hands with excitement.

They all saw Rose widen her eyes in shock before they drooped to a half-lidded look.

Fu stopped shaking the girl's hands before asking, "What's wrong?"

"You guys won't see me for two years actually," Rose said with her head turned towards the lake she grew to admire and play in.

"What?" they all yelled at the information. They all yelled, "Why not?" at the girl. A few tears gathered in the emotional Jinchuuriki's eyes.

"Because," Rose started before turning towards them all and saying, "I wasn't born here."

They were all shocked by the information before Rose started to explain.

"I was born in another country," she started explaining. "My parents are ninja here, so yes I do somewhat belong here, but I was born elsewhere. My parents are running around the country looking for clues about this one organization that hunts people like us. They were especially worried for me considering I contain portions of each Bijuu within me like you all know," she said waiting until they each nodded in response. "Well my parents felt it would be a good idea for me to stay in the other world where I was born until it was safe enough for me to come here and live here. I am only allowed to live here two years at a time thanks to the hunters around these parts. I'm sorry I can't stay longer," she said, her head drooping towards the ground.

"Whoever thought it was a good idea to put a part of each Bijuu together was an idiot to come up with that," a voice said interrupting the silence.

Everyone looked towards Naruto who had made the comment. They heard him say, "I wish they never did that. Now you have to be on the run constantly because if they have you they can get everyone else!" Everyone's heads drooped at the thought of Rose leaving and at the comment before they snapped their heads back up at the next comment. "But I'm glad though," Naruto added on, "On the other hand, we got to meet you and befriend you. For that, I am glad that they did so," he finished with a smile on his face.

"Let's go home okay?" Rose asked with a small smile as she turned her head up to look at the others.

Everyone looked up and smiled as well at the question and the comment before they started to spend the rest of the week making it the best it could be until Rose and the rest of the Jinchuuriki left the home in the forest. Rose had promised to be back after two years of staying back in her own world which everyone was excited for.

~Time Skip~ after two years

Naruto, Killer Bee, Fu, Utakata, Han, Roshi, Yagura, Yugito, and Gaara were waiting patiently at the house they used to stay in two years prior. They had each gotten stronger than when they had left. They were each now around the ages of nine, ten, and eleven now. They were waiting for one more person to make their group of ten complete again.

Many of the villages they had stayed in had finally changed their ways of thinking and accepted the Jinchuurikis after all of their help with the village work. They also proved their loyalty with several tests which included having a chance to leave the village after being beaten up to near death.

They were talking until they heard an explosion a few miles away from the house. They jumped up at the noise before nodding to each other. Taking off in the direction, each of the Jinchuuriki hoped that their friend Rose was not in danger.

Luck was not on their side as they saw the new group of hunters, Akatsuki, holding Rose by the throat. They gasped in horror as they saw Rose's parents dead at the side of a fallen log.

Rose was critically injured as she had several cuts along her arms and legs which were bleeding profusely. They could tell that the Akatsuki had cut Rose's stomach if the blood was anything to go by. Rose wasn't struggling, and her eyes were lifeless. The entire group could see tears making their way down the girl's face as she was held up.

The more emotional Jinchuuriki couldn't help but cry at the sight of their most important friend possibly being dead by the hands of the Akatsuki.

They all roared out and unleashed their Bijuu power trying to get Rose back into their hands safe and sound.

There were only two Akatsuki members there which was a good thing in the Jinchuuriki's point of view as they had the two people running after about a half hour.

The two Akatsuki had dropped Rose during the fight, and the Jinchuuriki hurriedly picked her up carefully and shunshined to the nearest village to heal her at the hospital.

The nearest hospital happened to be in the Hidden Leaf village.

As soon as the Jinchuuriki had entered the village, they were greeted with cheers and hellos…until they saw what they were carrying. They had heard of the girl that had saved the Jinchuurikis over four years ago and trained them to be strong and loyal to their village. The townspeople gasped as they saw the condition that the girl was in. Rose would often take the Jinchuuriki back to the villages during their training in hopes to see how much the village had changed...hopefully for the better.

They all immediately cleared a path for the Jinchuuriki to take to the hospital.

After rushing to the hospital, nurses and doctors were already working to have a surgery prepared for Rose. Dropping her off carefully in the emergency room, the nine left the room and waited outside for some news.

A few hours passed and no news was heard from the emergency room. The Jinchuuriki were getting anxious, and before they could rush in to check on Rose, a nurse appeared out of the room with a tired face but with a small smile. "She's alive," the nurse said with a sigh of relief which was mimicked by the nine Jinchuuriki.

Word was soon spread throughout the village and cheering was heard for Rose's recovery.

The nurse looked on with a happy smile until she dragged the nine Jinchuuriki to Rose's room in the hospital where she would stay. "Be careful around her," the nurse warned, "She is emotionally unstable because she saw her parents murdered. She feels as if it is her fault that they were killed trying to protect her from Akatsuki. I suggest you try to calm her down and make sure she realizes that it's not her fault and that she is not a burden." She stopped at a room before nodding her head towards the direction of the door before leaving them.

Nodding, the nine Jinchuuriki opened the door and peeked inside of the room to see one of the saddest sights in their lives so far.

Rose was curled up with her knees tucked to her chest, and her face showed her incredible pain. She was bawling over the death of her parents and was gripping her arms harshly. Her entire figure was shaking and trembling as she tried to calm herself down. The Jinchuuriki could have sworn that Rose might have been clutching her arms so tightly, they would bleed soon if she didn't let go soon. As soon as Rose had noticed their presence, she stopped crying and quickly tried to wipe her tears away before looking at them with a strained smile. "Hey guys," she started, her eyes closed tightly to prevent any tears from coming out, "How have you been?"

The nine Jinchuuriki walked inside and sat down on different sections of the bed. They saw Rose look at them with the same strained smile on her face.

Fu couldn't help but get up again and walk over to be closest to Rose before sitting down on the bed behind her and grabbing the girl's head. Fu sat on her knees on the bed and pulled Rose's head down so that the girl was lying down on Fu's lap.

Rose was certainly surprised at the action and tried to get up to no avail thanks to the others.

"We're fine," Fu answered running her hand through Rose's hair, "But the question is, are you alright?"

Rose's eyes glazed over before she whispered something under her breath.

"Repeat that again please," Yagura said politely as he leaned in closer to see a few tears gathering up in Rose's eyes.

Taking a deep breath, Rose began to repeat what she had said before, "I'm such a failure. I can't even protect my own family. I was too selfish. I just wanted to go outside a minute before I visited you all and they were….they were killed. I'm so selfish and such a crybaby. I'm such a burden to everyone." At this point, Rose was crying with tears flowing like rivers down her cheeks. She pulled her arms up over her eyes to hide the tears and continued, "I'm such a burden. I can't even protect the people I found most precious. I'm nothing but a failure and a crybaby. I should have just died during that fi-"

"Stop it!" a voice yelled interrupting Rose.

They all looked to see Naruto with his own face covered in tears. "Stop saying stuff like that!" they heard him scream again.

Rose looked to the side to see the ground while her eyelids drooped down into a narrowed and sad stare. She whipped her head back up at Naruto's next statement.

"If you are selfish and a crybaby, then what are we?" he yelled at her. The others nodded in agreement. "You always smiled to get us happy. You tried to make us as happy as can be. You were never a burden to us, we thought it would be the other way around with how we acted," he yelled getting off the bed and stomping over in front of her. "You are our savior. The one who had rescued us years ago from the hatred of the villagers. If you are selfish, then what are we?" he asked with a sincere look in his eyes. "Trust us when we say that we love you and want to protect you," he commented taking her hands in his and holding them to his chest. "We all love you dearly and don't want anything bad to happen to you," he added on.

Rose glanced around the room to see everyone else nodding their agreement on the statement. She smiled and tears gathered in her eyes once more before she was crying while yelling out, "Thank you! Thank you so much!" She clung to Fu's waist like a lifeline and cried out all of the tears that had gathered up over the years.

They all smiled at Rose and comforted her as she cried including gathering everyone into a group hug. The group of villagers, doctors, and nurses outside of the room could only smile at the sight presented to them through the small space between the open door and the wall. They quietly closed the door to let the ten Jinchuuriki have their moment together.

A few days had passed after the incident, and Rose was back to normal. She was back to taking missions as the 'Everlasting Flower' but disappeared every week for about five days before coming back to the ninja world. When asked about it by the other Jinchuuriki, she told them that she was still going to school in her world and could only visit during each weekend when there was nothing going on.

They were all sad that they couldn't see her all the time but understood that the ninja country might bring up some bad memories for her because of what had happened. They couldn't wait for her visits on the weekends and made the most out of them when she did visit…