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

This is important. I just realized I only have five weeks until school starts, and I still have three books to read, an SAT test to study for, three packets of 4-page worksheets to finish, AP Bio work to finish, work to do for other stuff, and a whole mess of other things. Becoming a Senior in High School is stressing me out a lot to where I can't even think of some of my fanfiction without worrying about school work. I think I'll do what SkyGem is doing on her profile page and post little journals on my profile once I get rid of all the profile stuff on my page. Please enjoy the chapter and wish me luck with all my work heehee~

Tail 22: Secrets…are best kept hidden…

"We won!" Kirihara yelled out loud as he glomped Rose. They had beaten Seigaku in the finals of the Regional Tournament. Sanada was against Ryoma and boy was everyone happy.

Rose could see her fellow Jinchuuriki clapping from the sidelines. She could also see their respective teams behind them. Apparently, the teams wouldn't let their new teammates go see the match on their own…at least, not without bringing them along to see.

Rose couldn't shake the feeling that something was wrong. She glanced over to the other Jinchuuriki also glancing around the area before they made eye contact with her. Nodding her head slightly, Rose started to break her seals one by one until she was down to five seals. She noticed the other Jinchuuriki also breaking them. She could tell that they only broke enough seals to get have either two or one seals depending on how worried they were.

"You know you ten," a voice appeared from all around the courts. The tennis teams were startled and quickly ran for cover in the bleachers. The ten Jinchuuriki stayed much to the surprise of the tennis teams. The teams tried forcing their teammates to hide with them only to get shaken off by them.

The nine Jinchuuriki ran over to Rose in the middle of the court used for the Regional Finals. They heard the voice again along with a few others say, "Secrets…are best kept hidden don't you think?" Hearing a whizzing noise, the ten all jumped in different directions avoiding the objects flying at them.

The tennis teams didn't know what had happened until they saw several kunais and shurikens implant themselves in the ground where the ten had been.

Rose had jumped up and onto the top of the wire fence surrounding the courts. She noticed each of the Jinchuuriki running toward the sides of the court before being stopped by a particular weapon and person. "This is just great," she complained narrowing her eyes seeing their worst enemy…the Akatsuki.

"Now come with us peacefully," Pein said, his face hidden by his cloak.

"Or just give us the girl on the fence over there!" Deidara said cheerfully pointing a clay bird at Rose who glared at them all.

"There is no way in hell you are getting Rose!" Fu yelled at them before reaching her hand into her pockets to throw several senbons at the ten Akatsuki members.

The Akatsuki all dodged the attacks by jumping over the senbons and landing closer to the fence. None of them were any closer to Rose thankfully.

The tennis teams were certainly surprised. Sure they knew that the ten were not normal, but they didn't expect this.

"You scared of getting beat by a bunch of brats!" Killer Bee yelled out before infusing chakra into his shirt to bring out his swords.

The rest of the Jinchuuriki followed his example by bringing out their weapons.

Gaara brought out his earth chakram from his anklet which he started swinging in his arms aiming at the traitor of the Sand village…Sasori, a puppet master. The red-haired male of Akatsuki had betrayed Gaara's home village, and he planned to pay him back for it…ten-fold…

Yugito channeled chakra into the tattoos on her back and brought out the two kusarigamas while aiming at another member that she had a grudge against…Kakuzu, one of the members of the 'Immortal Combo' or as they joked around when they had heard the name, the 'Zombie Combo.' Kakuzu had several hearts for each of the five main elements: Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, and Lightning. He had stolen the hearts from other ninja he had killed that were aligned with those elements.

Yagura reached into his bag and brought out his katana aiming at a particular blonde-haired man…Deidara, the clay artist of the Akatsuki. Deidara was one of the two artists of Akatsuki. He liked to create things with a bang which would explain why his clay birds would explode when their job was done for a mission.

Roshi released the chains in the wristbands he wore while also unsealing the fire chakram he had in the fire tattoo under his eyes. He was aiming for Pein, the leader of Akatsuki. The man was the leader of Amegakure as well as Akatsuki. He had several bodies of ninjas he took to use as his own for his army. Whatever one body saw, the others would see it as well.

Revealing the necklace he wore, Han released his water chakram already aiming at Hidan, the other member of the 'Immortal Combo' or 'Zombie Combo.' Either name was fine to say for the Jinchuuriki, but the 'Zombie Combo' always got them to laugh at the two Akatsuki members. Hidan was always a weirdo in their opinion, praising the death god every minute of the day and praying to him. He was definitely over the top when he would literally impale himself to kill other ninjas during a ritual.

Pulling his hand from under his shirt, Utakata readied his snake sword as well as his flute in the other hand while aiming for Konan, the only female member of Akatsuki. Konan was very loyal to the Pein and followed him everywhere he went. She was a paper user and could control paper to do her whim whether it was an attack or a defense. Konan was able to show her ability whenever someone was able to punch her only to realize that it was paper that they had punched.

Fu reached to her ears to pull off the wing-shaped earrings. She channeled chakra into them to release her two wind chakram. She was already starting to swing them at Zetsu, the spy of the organization. He had two personalities in one body which could sometimes split into two. He was able to make clones of himself, one time showing this ability by creating an army for Akatsuki one time. His two personalities were always arguing with one another which the Jinchuuriki found funny.

Killer Bee already had his swords out and pointed them at Tobi, the childish one of the Akatsuki. He was always calling himself a 'good boy' which seemed to annoy the Jinchuuriki to no end. 'If he is such a good boy, then why was he with the Akatsuki?' was what they always wondered whenever they saw him. The boy had an orange mask with a swirl on it, so naturally, the Jinchuuriki were always curious to see what was behind the mask.

Growling at two people in particular, Naruto brought out the wire he hid in his wristbands as well as several kunai and shuriken hidden in the weight holsters on him. He attached several of the kunai and shuriken to the wire and was already swinging them above his head. He was aiming at Itachi and Kisame in particular, the best two-man team in the Akatsuki apparently when it came to most missions. They had always completed their missions successfully except when it came to the Jinchuuriki. Naruto hated the both of them for attacking his village with brutality and with no warning.

Rose channeled chakra into the star pin in her hair to reveal the katana that she had received on her birthday. She placed the katana inside of its white sheath and placed it on her hip as she grabbed two ink balls from her pockets. She wasn't aiming for anyone, but the sword would provide her some protection if she needed any.

"Get to it Rose!" Fu yelled already charging Zetsu. The other Jinchuuriki also charged at their respective opponent or opponents in Naruto's case.

Rose nodded in response and popped the ink balls to let the ink flow onto her hands before running around the court in a huge circle. She noticed that the Akatsuki would sometimes aim for her trying to get her to stop but were unable to as their respective Jinchuuriki had attacked them before they could try anything.

"Watch out Rose!" Killer Bee yelled as he threw one of his swords at Tobi who was close to hitting her. The Akatsuki member grabbed it and sent it back to Killer Bee before continuing to charge at Rose.

"So," Tobi started jumping next to Rose, "Rose is your name huh? Tobi is a good boy!"

Rose rolled her eyes at that last comment before stopping and kicking him in the stomach back to Killer Bee. She ducked her head quickly to avoid Hidan's scythe from decapitating her. "Would you guys actually keep your opponents in line?" Rose yelled before running ahead to complete the outer circle. Jumping over one of Kakuzu's hearts, she landed about five feet inside of the large circle and ran around again to complete an inner circle.

"Sorry!" Rose heard them all reply before pushing their opponents further away from the symbol that Rose was drawing.

After completing the inner circle, Rose jumped onto five places marking them before connecting them with lines to make a pentagon shape. She jumped into the middle of the pentagon before making a center mark there and dragging lines to each of the vertexes. Next was the star shape symbol in the middle which was going to be more difficult as she couldn't mess the star up.

Just as she thought that, she had to jump out of the way of one of Pein's bodies. "Annoying little runt!" she yelled wrapping the silver ribbon of her sword around her wrist and swinging the sword at the body successfully making it move back to fight Roshi who swung at him with the chain he had. Quickly putting the sword back on her side, she quickly drew the outlines of the shapes included. Now all that was left…the kanji… "Oh joy," Rose commented rolling her eyes as she quickly wrote the kanji in each space.

"Rose!" she heard someone yell. She looked up from her work to see Konan dodging Utakata's attack and heading straight towards her. "Dang it!" she yelled grabbing her sword and infusing chakra into it before swinging it towards the female. The sword pierced through the woman's arm and surprisingly, the arm didn't turn into paper and bled instead. She was shocked and went to Pein to show him the wound. Rose pulled back her sword to keep working on the circle. Her hands were darting back and forth writing all the symbols.

The tennis team members were all shocked. In front of them, a fight was going on that they couldn't help in even if they wanted to. They kept watching Rose continue writing inside the circle she drew until she was finished with all the kanji for the circle, the pentagon, and the star.

"Guys!" Rose yelled already at the middle of the circle with her hands placed on the seal.

The nine Jinchuuriki understood what she wanted and quickly blocked their opponents attack before sending them back towards the fence. Jumping towards the seal, they each jumped onto their respective spots that they had used when they first used this seal.

Everyone could hear Rose mutter something that sounded like, "Release our true selves, so we can protect those closest. To our hearts, our souls, so we may all coexist. By the power from our heart, release our Bijuus, so we may never depart." All of a sudden the ten of them were covered in a bright light before it dissipated.

What was shown in the circle surprised everyone…all of the people there saw the nine Jinchuuriki on all fours with an aura surrounding them with their respective number of tails popping out. Rose was a bit surprising as her aura was multi-color, and her nine tails were a combination of one of each of the Jinchuurikis tails.

"What are they?" the tennis regulars all yelled at the same time they saw the group transformed.