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

If you don't like party scenes that much, this one is pretty long because of all the presents. I felt it necessary to have something happy after something a bit sad like last chapter. Please enjoy the chapter~

Tail 20: Party!

Rose walked along with the regulars back from the amusement park they had all gone to. Crystal was right when she said that Rose would feel better if she talked about what had happened. The only reason that talking to the Jinchuuriki didn't help was because they were actually there at the end and saw the outcome. Talking to them was different than talking to someone who knew almost nothing about you besides where you lived and what you were like. She smirked at the shock on their faces when they saw her cry…it must have shocked them silly if they looked like that.

Each of the tennis regulars were carrying something whether it be a prize or the boxes of stuff that Rose had won in the games that she excelled in at the park.

They each walked into the mansion and headed to the aquarium in the south wing to place all of the fish Rose had won in. She had them placed in a separate tank than the fish already there, so they would know which fish that she had won for them. Afterwards they started going to their own rooms to place the prizes they had won for themselves. Somehow, the regulars kept the prizes they had won for Rose hidden from her. They decided to wait until later tonight to give the gifts to her. Neither person realized that someone or a few people had the same idea of surprising her.

The nine tennis regulars walked into the living room and were about to turn on the lights until the room suddenly lit up and heard people yell, "Surprise!"

They all jumped back in surprise before seeing the nine people Rose had brought with her to see Yukimura for the first time. "Naruto, Killer Bee, Fu, Utakata, Han, Roshi, Yagura, Yugito, Gaara!" Rose yelled rushing over to them and hugging them all before yelling, "What are you all doing here? I thought you were busy preparing for something when I contacted you this morning."

Seeing them smirking, Rose got suspicious until she heard them all say, "We wanted to surprise you and wish you a happy birthday!"

Rose was certainly shocked. She had forgotten that the saddest day of her life was also the same day as the happiest. She was so overtaken by sadness that she had forgotten that her parents were killed on the same day as her birthday.

To say the regulars were shocked would be an understatement as well considering they were gawking at the new information. They felt even sadder for Rose because of this, but then they decided what more of a way to cheer up on a sad day than to make happy memories.

Each of the Jinchuuriki had prepared a gift for Rose in advance just in case they weren't able to make it. It took a lot of persuading to let their teams let them go the Kanagawa to visit Rose including getting her childhood friends in on the plan. The nine Jinchuuriki had brought their gifts for Rose as well as gifts from her childhood friends because they weren't able to come over for the day.

"Let's party!" Fu yelled out happily throwing a CD into the player like an expert before it started with a Japanese pop song.

Pretty soon, the party was underway as the nine Jinchuuriki decided to mess around the living room and dance around after moving all of the furniture to the sides along with the tennis regulars help. Yugito left in the middle of the party and headed to the kitchen to get the birthday cake for the girl. On the cake was the number 14 for the girl's 14th birthday as well as nine tails coming out of it in all directions. The thing that caught Rose's eyes about it was that the tails were each representing the Bijuus inside of her. She smiled happily with tears in her eyes as she hugged everyone in the room including the regulars.

They were all eating the cake happily, and after the group was done, Rose decided to open her presents with the urgings from the others.

She started opening up the Jinchuuriki's presents one by one starting from lowest tail to higher tail. It was easy to notice which present was from who because the gift wrappings on the presents were the same colors as the nine had usually worn in the ninja world.

Rose first walked to the red and tan colored present before opening it. After seeing the present, she turned to Gaara before grabbing him in a hug and saying, "Thank you!" over and over. Apparently, Gaara had gotten her this one book that she had been dying to read since she had heard of it, but she never had the time to actually go to a bookstore and purchase the book herself. So yes, Rose was very happy that she had gotten the book that she wanted.

Next in line was a purple and black covered present. It was very tall and slim, so Rose decided to open it carefully. When the top of the box popped off, Rose could only gape in surprise at what was inside. She slowly reached in and carefully dragged out what was inside. What the others in the room, besides Yugito, saw the present, they were all gaping as well. Inside the box was a baby blue dress that looked perfect with her complexion that reached all the way to her ankles and had plenty of jewels sewed on with a sash surrounding the shoulders. She put the dress back carefully before rushing over to Yugito giving her a hug as well.

Yagura walked up to her and placed a green and black present in her hands. Slowly taking off the wrapping and opening the box, Rose widened her eyes before glomping Yagura thanking him for the trinket. When she pulled out the gift, everyone saw a marble necklace with the shape of a rose held together by a silver string. Rose quickly put it on with a smile in Yagura's direction.

Wrapped up in tan and pink was Roshi's present. Rose quickly opened the gift to see a box full of seashells from Japan's shorelines. She was ecstatic as she put each one up to her ear to hear the sounds of the soothing ocean waves. She carefully put the shells back in their places before going to hug Roshi just to be stopped when he held out a hand. Quickly understanding what he wanted, Rose also put her hand out before they did a handshake so complicated that no one could follow and was finished after a minute when they high-fived each other in the air.

Han was next, and he placed a red box in the birthday girl's hands. She opened it to see two pair of earrings. The first pair was a pair of angel wings while the second pair was of two little foxes. She smirked at Han before shaking her head and then smiling at him. Han always seemed to know what type of earrings she wanted. Rose had been looking to buy these for a while, but she seemed to be too busy in order to buy them herself. When Han had heard of it from Yugito, he told the Nibi-Jinchuuriki that he would buy her the earrings instead.

Utakata walked up to her next with a medium-sized blue case. Looking at it with a first glance, Rose didn't know what it was until she opened it. Inside was a complex looking thing, but she soon realized what it was. It was one of those complex-looking flutes. It was custom-made from what she could tell. The flute was a light green. This was a different flute than what the regulars were used to seeing. After a short while into the shape, the flute would branch off in different directions to give it the look of a tree. She would use her hands to plug the holes in each of the branches to create a different note. She smiled at Utakata before playing a short piece she came up with for this type of instrument if she ever got one which earned smiles from everyone in the room.

Next up was Fu who was jumping up and down in her seat. Walking over quickly, she gently got the white and red covered gift from Fu. When the girl opened it, Rose quickly smiled and hugged Fu tightly. She showed everyone the gift which made everyone smile. It was a photo album filled with pictures that people had secretly taken and put together of Rose with the Jinchuuriki as well as with her teammates. They all flipped through the pages before moving onto the next gift which happened to be from Killer Bee.

Walking over, Rose got a gift covered in white and brown wrapping paper. She opened it quickly thanks to Killer Bee trying to rush her and was surprised at what she saw. Inside the box were several CDs that Rose had wanted to buy. She had always been a fan of J-Pop and wanted to buy more CDs, but like always, she would have no actual time to get it herself. She smiled up at Killer Bee before glomping him as well as a thank you.

Last up was Naruto's gift. Naruto walked up to the birthday girl with a smirk and brought out two gifts from behind his back. One Rose could tell was for her parents' grave in this world as it was a bouquet of flowers. She would remember to visit the graves later tonight and bring the bouquet along with Crystal's bouquet there to place. The second gift was orange with a few red streaks here and there. Looking inside the gift, Rose was surprised to see a little music box. She wound the box up and let it play. After recognizing the tune, Rose cried as she remembered that this was the song that her mother would sing to her every night to get her to fall asleep. She hugged Naruto tightly as thanks for giving her such a precious gift to remind her of her parents.

Before the regulars could give their gifts to the girl, they all suggested taking the bouquets to Rose's parents' graves before it got to dark to go anywhere. She agreed before coating to the coat room next to the door and grabbing 18 jackets for all of them. Tossing 17 of the jackets towards the others, she put on her own and then gently grabbed the bouquets from the table. It turned out that a few more had popped up which she suspected was from her childhood friends and the other Jinchuuriki as well.

All 18 of them decided to walk to the grave considering it was a few streets down from Rose's mansion. Each of them talked along the way, each carrying a bouquet of flowers.

Once they got to the graveyard, Rose carefully opened the door and led the others to her parents' graves. They were side by side, and the headstones were intricate. The headstone for the girl's mother's grave was in the shape of an angel with a beautiful dress and flowers in her hair. Her father's headstone was in the shape of a dragon which Rose explained was his favorite animal. The dragon had the angel from Rose's mother's headstone riding on the dragon along with a little girl in her arms.

Each of the people there placed the bouquets on the gravestones gently to form one phrase. They were able to rearrange the flowers to gently form the phrase for 'Forever Happy' on top of the gravestones.

They each said their prayers while letting Rose be the last one to pray to them. Afterwards, they all stayed a while to listen to the wind among the trees before deciding to leave because of the cold.

After getting back to the mansion, Rose went to the kitchen quickly to grab a few mugs of hot chocolate for everyone to drink. She came out a few minutes later with two trays in her hands and one on her head with mugs filled with hot chocolate.

Marui quickly got up and rushed over to Rose to help her carry it all. He was certainly surprised when he didn't see one drop of hot chocolate spill from the mugs when he grabbed the tray off of her head and one off her hands.

Nodding in thanks, Rose along with Marui passed out the mugs to everyone before she smiled at the tennis regulars saying, "You don't have to get me anything considering you didn't know about my birthday okay guys?"

Smirking at each other, the tennis regulars looked up at Rose with grins on their faces. Seeing the confused look on Rose's face, Yukimura explained, "We were planning to give you some things anyway, so why not?" he finished with a wink in her direction.

Rose's eyes snapped completely open before she smiled with her eyes closed and her head shaking. "What now?" Rose asked tilting her head before opening her eyes and adding on, "When did this happen?"

"When you disappeared on us and got us the fish!" Kirihara yelled out before quickly covering his mouth with his hand.

Blinking, Rose finally said after a minute of silence, "You mean with that bell booth?"

Kirihara nodded slightly as a reply to the girl which got a smile from her.

"You silly boy," Rose said ruffling Kirihara's hair making it even more messy than before.

"Don't forget the presents from your childhood friends Rose!" Yagura yelled out before grabbing more presents from behind the couch.

"That's a lot to open…" Rose commented with a sweat-drop on her head. "Let's get to opening shall we?" she asked clapping her hands together and rubbing them together with a grin on her face. Everyone chuckled before they started to give Rose the gifts from Rikkaidai and from her childhood friends in different schools.

All of the Rikkaidai regulars decided to give Rose her gifts at once which surprised her because of what they were. Each of them carried a plushy-version of the animals that were part of the Jinchuuriki line if the Bijuus were normal animals. Kirihara had an orange fox plushy with yellow ears and a red-tipped tail. He was also holding a blue octopus plushy that had striped around the legs. Yukimura held a plushy of a green dragonfly which she would probably say could represent the insect-Bijuu within Fu. Sanada was holding out the plushy he got for Rose with his head turned away and a slight blush on his face. The plushy in Sanada's hands was a little brown weasel with a black snout. Yagyuu held out a dog plushy that had a white coat with brown spots. Yanagi was holding out a green reptile-looking plushy that had fangs coming out of its mouth. Niou was smirking as he placed his plushy on top of Rose's head which she noticed was a light green turtle plushy. She smiled as she accepted the next gift from Jackal which happened to be a purple cat with yellow spots on the tail as well as the paws.

Turning to Marui, Rose saw him looking the other way as he placed another plushy into her hands. She stared at it because it was one of the cutest plushies she had seen. It was a little raccoon dog, but it was a light tan color. It had those big anime eyes as well as a cute smile on its face. The spots around the eyes made it look like a panda because of it and the tail had about five black rings surrounding it. She also saw a note in between the large brown ears and plucked it out before reading it. She smiled before hugging all of the tennis regulars while saying, "Thank you all so much guys."

Kirihara couldn't help but grab everyone in the room and pull them into a group hug with Rose in the middle. She was pretty much being squashed with all the people around her.

Pretty soon, Yugito laughed before saying, "Enough with the death hug. It's time to open the presents from all of your childhood friends kiddo."

Rose nodded before nudging her way out of the group death hug. She popped out of the circle and stumbled a bit before catching herself on the couch before she fell down onto it. Laughing, she picked up a light blue colored present. She saw the tag and opened it up. She shook her head with a smile at the present before taking it out for everyone to see. Rose help up her new camera before commenting, "So like Syuusuke to get me something photography-related. Atobe probably helped to pay for it."

She opened up a red covered present next and smiled again before taking it out. It turned out that it was a complete set of about 20 bath salts. "Seems like Choutarou, Ryoma, Yuuta, and Atsushi paired up to get this for me huh?" she asked turning towards Han, Roshi, and Utakata who gave her a nod in response. Rose chuckled before moving onto the next present.

Fu handed Rose a very slim, thin, and tall present wrapped in with a snowflake-patterned wrapping paper. Narrowing her eyes, Rose carefully unwrapped the paper before seeing a white sheath. She slowly unsheathed the present to reveal a baby blue sword with a navy blue hilt and a silver ribbon as the end. Widening her eyes along with everyone else, Rose commented, "This must have taken Ryou and Saeki forever to get huh Yagura? Fu?" She saw the two nodding their heads with smiles on their faces at how happy Rose would be to get a new weapon.

Yugito and Killer Bee went up to Rose to gently place a somewhat large present in her hand. Narrowing her eyes, Rose took off the wrapping paper before pulling out two identical red fans. She started flicking them open and closed repeatedly getting a feel of them while smiling. "Did the twins get this? I bet you that Takahisa said the idea before getting backed by Hanamura-san for the look right," Rose commented putting the two fans within her shirt-sleeves to hide. She got a nod from Yugito and Killer Bee and chuckled because of the guesses she made that happened to be correct.

Naruto and Gaara walked up to Rose last with three total presents in their hands. "Let me guess, Kintarou, Shiraishi, and Kenya right?" she said looking at the gifts in her hands. She saw the two boys nod before starting to open up the presents. The one from Kintarou was a journal filled with pranks that he, Naruto, and surprisingly Gaara had done since the Jinchuuriki had gotten to their school. She couldn't help but laugh when she started to read the journal. The one from Kenya was a new pair of sneakers for her to wear. "Figures the speed freak would send something like this," Rose laughed out before putting the sneakers back into the box. Shiraishi had sent a few accessories for Rose to wear. Included were a hair pin, two bracelets, two anklets, as well as a pair of fake piercings with interchangeable trinkets to hang.

"Wow that's a lot to get for a birthday of mine," Rose commented seeing all the gifts that had piled up after opening them. "Anyone want to help me get them to my room," she asked pointing at the pile with a sheepish smile on her face.

The others chuckled before getting up and picking up a small pile of gifts to bring to Rose's room. Today was a good day for Rose not because of the incident…but because of all the friends that she had with her and supporting her…including the Rikkaidai regulars now…