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

Special thanks to demoncat13 for all your support for the fanfiction!

Tail 30: Conflict Between Two Fates

"You guys ready?" Rose asked turning her head over her shoulder to look at the eight players for the tournament. Everyone else was sitting in the bleachers since they weren't chosen. She had special permission to be with the players during this tournament.

Rose saw Atobe, Sanada, Kikumaru, Oshitari, Sengoku, Fuji, Kirihara, and Ryoma nod their heads which made her smile. "Go get 'em!" she cheered as she stopped in her tracks to let them go past her and to the courts.

Going out herself, she saw a few familiar faces. When she was able to catch their eye, she waved to them and got a nod of their head in response. She walked over to the American side of the courts hoping to catch a talk with a few of her friends.

The matches went on, and Rose was able to get her friends alone with her to talk. "It's so good to see you Billy, Terry, Tom, Kevin. How have you been?" Rose asked while hugging each of them respectively.

"Nice to see you again Rose," Terry said ruffling the girl's hair.

Tom came up to her and patted her back while asking, "Akatsuki still being a bother?"

Rose looked up at Tom in confusion before she sighed. Shaking her head, she muttered, "Why is it that you can figure this stuff out so quickly…"

"Because it practically got posted online during your Regional Tournament," Billy said with a smile as he stared at his childhood friend.

Kevin stepped up and slung his arm over the girl's shoulders and asked, "Anything new going on? Besides the usual of course…"

Rose shrugged before turning her attention back to the match they were watching through the small television. "Nothing much really…just the usual…getting attacked by ninjas, trying to live a normal life, which happens to be impossible for me you know," she said with a chuckle at the end.

"Time for us to go now Rose," Terry said while dragging Tom with him to the courts. They looked back to see Rose smiling at them and mouthing, 'Good luck…and have fun.' They nodded before making it to the courts for their match with Kikumaru and Oshitari.

"I got to get back to my own team alright guys?" she asked Billy and Kevin before the doubles 2 players showed up. When she got nods in reply, Rose shunshined out of the room before the others could show up and appeared in an empty room on the Japanese team's side. She ended up in the girls' changing room which was good on her part considering she didn't know where to go…

Walking outside, Rose saw the coaches except for the bench coach watching the matches through another television. "Anything I miss?" Rose called out suddenly which seemed to surprise the coaches. They replied with a 'nothing much' which she believed considering she was also watching them a minute ago.

The matches kept going on until finally it was Kirihara's turn to play the match against Kevin. Rose was outside cheering, "You can do it Akaya-kun! Come on Kevin-kun!"

The two boys looked at her and yelled, "You can't cheer for both of us!" They then looked at each other and yelled, "How do you even know her?"

Rose was just giggling at the little fight she had created before she took a deep breath. Everyone who knew the girl covered their ears besides Kirihara and Kevin who were too busy arguing to notice. She let the breath go in one yell, "Stop fighting and start playing before I actually give you something to fight about!"

The two boys jumped from the sudden yell and covered their ears from the loud screech. "Who knew she could screech as loud as a fangirl?" the two muttered under their breath so that Rose wouldn't hear them.

The match started quickly so that no one would have to face Rose's anger…

It continued on between Kirihara and Kevin until Kirihara smashed against the net pole after hitting a Phantom Ball. Kirihara kept playing, but Rose knew better. She knew injuries considering how often she got them, and she could tell that something was wrong with her friend's shoulder. Kevin didn't seem to notice since he was too focused on breaking the Phantom Ball technique and figuring out the real shot from fakes.

Walking up to Tezuka, the current bench coach ever since Ryuuzaki-sensei got replaced because of her trip to the hospital, Rose whispered something in his ear. When she pulled away, she got a nod from the Seigaku captain and smiled before continuing to watch the match.

The game continued on until someone called a time-out. That was when Rose walked over to Kirihara and started to drag him over to the nurse's office.

"I told you it's nothing!" Kirihara yelled trying to stay on the court.

Rose kept pulling his uninjured arm and yelled back, "And I'm telling you, you need to see the infirmary for that shoulder of yours! You can't even lift it up all the way!"

Kirihara pulled out of Rose's grip and said, "Don't worry about it."

Tezuka then decided to step in and reached out towards Kirihara's shoulder. The boy reacted just like he and Rose thought the boy would and pulled back which caused his shoulder to actually be a little painful. "Take him to the infirmary now Rose," Tezuka said sitting back down onto the bench.

Rose had a smile on her face as she dragged Kirihara to the infirmary without complaint. She made sure that he sat down and got his shoulder bandaged before he got up again.

When Kirihara did get back up, he started yelling about how he can still play and how Tezuka played until his arm was injured once more. He was even trying to get Tezuka involved in letting him play…

Rose couldn't take it anymore and yelled, "Stop being so stubborn Akaya! Tezuka's stopping you for that reason! You do realize that if you keep playing…you won't be able to play in the nationals…" she trailed off the end as a whisper.

Kirihara stopped yelling and looked at the ground with a bit of regret and guilt.

Putting Kirihara's chin in between her fingers, Rose lifted Kirihara's face to look at her and said, "You want to be in nationals don't you? That was…no, IS your biggest dream. You have to make it happen, but to do so, you have to be fully healed…"

Kirihara stopped arguing and reluctantly agreed to not playing so that he could go play in the Nationals which got a smile from Rose.

The tournament continued with Ryoma playing Kevin which was what…what was his name…Mr. Baker. That's right, Mr. Baker, the American coach wanted because of the past between the parents of Kevin and Ryoma.

Rose watched the match from the sidelines from behind the coaching bench, so she could watch the match close up. It was a match between two of her American childhood friends, and she would never miss it for the world…depending on the situation of course considering the ninja world was included….

In the middle of the match, when the two were switching courts, the players were talking to their bench coaches.

Glancing to the side, Rose saw something which made her eyes widen and sprint towards Kevin. Tezuka and Ryoma didn't know what was going on until they heard Mr. Baker yelp in pain.

When the two looked over along with the crowd watching the matches, they were surprised. They saw Kevin who was a step back from where he was before and glaring at Mr. Baker along with the rest of the American tennis team. What scared them was Rose's look on her face. She was glaring a glare that could probably match up to Fuji's…which was scary for the girl who usually had a smile on her face.

"I don't take kindly to people who try to hurt my friends," Rose said with menace in her voice as she tightened her grip on Mr. Baker's wrists slightly which got him to flinch. She left go of him and went over to Kevin to ask, "You okay Kevin?"

"I'm fine Rose," the blonde said nodding his thanks. They could both hear the rest of the American team sigh with relief that Kevin didn't get hurt.

"What is up with your coach anyway?" Rose whispered into Kevin's ear before they ended the time-out. "He seems a bit fishy to me…"

"Seems a bit fishy to us too," Kevin whispered back while retying his shoes and checking his racquet once more.

"I'll come by with one of the sponsors later Kevin," Rose said patting him on the back before heading back to the others on the Japanese team.

The tournament ended with Ryoma's win, and Rose followed the American team to their changing rooms along with one of the sponsors by her side.

When the two reached the changing room, they could both hear Mr. Baker saying something about having nothing to stay here for any longer.

Rose nodded to the sponsor and opened the door for the woman to go inside. She wanted the sponsor to tell the team the good news as well as the bad news to Mr. Baker. Rose couldn't help but giggle once she found out that they were planning to fire Mr. Baker and ban him from the tennis association because of all the money he spent on advertising his team. 'The idiot,' Rose thought when she peeked into the room. She burst out laughing when she saw that Mr. Baker's face was that of a goldfish.

The others turned to see her and smiled. Billy, Terry, Tom, and Kevin gave the girl a nod in appreciation which she replied back with a smile.

Walking inside, Rose hugged the four of them saying, "Congratulations you guys. You finally got a good sponsor," she ended with a wink of her eye at the group.

"Thank you," Kevin whispered in the girl's ear so that no one would hear.

"No problem Kevin," she whispered back with a small smile on her face. Raising her voice, Rose said, "Why don't we go somewhere while you are staying here before you head back?"

This got nods from the four friends and uncertain looks from the others.

In the end, Rose was able to convince Bobby, Arnold, and Michael to come with the group for sight-seeing.

Rose dragged the group of seven out to meet with the Japanese teams outside of the arena.

The American team could see the Japanese team shaking their heads with smiles at the girl as if they knew she would do something like this.

The teams took the American team everywhere in the city. They went to amusement parks, the beach if they could, movie theaters, game arcades, and other places that the group seemed to like.

"Ooh!" Rose yelled out before pointing towards another shop, "Let's try that one!"

"Alright, alright," Kirihara said before he was dragged by Rose into the shop.

As soon as the two entered, the others outside heard a scream. They immediately went inside to scream as well when arrows flew towards them as soon as they entered.

They immediately went outside while hoping that Rose and Kirihara would be alright.

"Do something about this!" they all heard Kirihara yell.

"I can't do a thing without having to concentrate!" they heard Rose yell back.

They didn't know what was happening but didn't like it when they heard Kirihara yell Rose's name.

The group didn't care anymore; they just went inside to see what happened. What the group saw surprised them as Rose had created a metal barrier from the ground below them.

What they didn't like was that Rose had a few arrows piercing her arms from trying to concentrate to create the barrier.

As soon as Rose was sure that there were no more flying arrows, she let down the barrier and started to take out the arrows. Luckily, the arrows weren't piercing her arm all the way through.

Every time Rose pulled one arrow out, she would wince because of the pain sometimes. She didn't mind really, but she wanted to make sure that Kirihara was safe…after all he was her childhood friend…

"You alright Rose," Marui asked with a worried face as he entered the building cautiously going against his own team's warnings.

Rose looked up to see Marui and felt the heat in her cheeks grow in response. She quickly looked toward the ground and said, "It's nothing. It'll heal in a while."

"You sure?" Marui asked walking over to Rose and gently gripping her arm to lead her out.

"I'm sure Marui-senpai," Rose said allowing herself to be led out of the booth…or as the rest called it a 'murder-shop' because of all the weapons flying at them…

"Let's go home then," Yugito said with a sigh of relief as she watched Marui walk out with Rose.

Rose looked back at the booth that she and Marui had just exited. She could have sworn that the booth was a haunted house when she first looked at it. Someone must have placed a very good Genjutsu on it for her not to realize. "Just another conflict between two fates Yugito…just another conflict," Rose said as she stared back at the booth.