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 32: A Promise to Never Forget
It was the day of the National Tournament. Everything was going along well for the Rikkaidai team as well as the other teams and the Jinchuuriki. Once the Jinchuuriki found out about Marui and Rose dating, they couldn't help but cheer for the two. But when they got Marui alone, they threatened that if he ever hurt her, he would have to answer to them in a painful way. He had to explain how he had no intention to hurt her whatsoever during the time they would be together.
The other schools soon found out and were also happy for the two. They even got some gifts to celebrate the two getting together.
Marui had just finished his match with Jackal against the Golden Pair made up of Kikumaru and Oishi. Rose rushed up to him and checked to make sure he was alright.
"Are you sure?" Rose kept pestering him which the others found amusing…especially the spectators.
"I am fine," Marui said with a small smile as she dragged him back to the bleachers.
Rose sat down next to him and laid her head on his shoulder. "You know I get worried about you Marui-senpai," she said nuzzling into the crook of his neck.
"How many times do I have to tell you," Marui said before turning his head to kiss Rose on the cheek, "Call me Bunta."
Rose blushed crimson before she stuttered out, "O-Okay B-Bunta."
"You're cute," Marui said with a chuckle as he brought Rose into a one-armed hug which caused her to blush even more.
The spectators around the couple couldn't help but 'aw' at the cute sight the two made. It wasn't everyday where the regulars would get a non-fangirl as a girlfriend considering the girls just swarmed them all.
The teams watched the match between Yukimura and Ryoma. Ryoma may have achieved the 'Pinnacle of Perfection,' but it was not very effective against Yukimura's own 'Pinnacle of Perfection.' Rose had figured that someone this year would unlock that during Nationals and decided to help Yukimura unlock his own to face it. She knew that Ryoma had the potential to unlock it at an early age, and she wanted to help her team out.
With the Pinnacle of Perfection and his own style of tennis, Yukimura was able to win the Nationals making it their third win in a row.
The crowd cheered along with Rose and Marui. Even Seigaku cheered because it was the best match they had ever had in their school years. Rose could see the Jinchuuriki and their respective teams clapping in the bleachers.
Rose couldn't help but feel that something was going to happen today. She couldn't shake that feeling off, so she took it as a warning to be alert. She let Marui go in order to let him get thrown up into the air by his teammates along with the others. They were taking turns in throwing the regulars in the air for their win.
Rose looked on with a smile before she froze. "They aren't supposed to be here," she whispered under her breath before she pivoted on her foot to barely miss a sword going at her head. She grabbed its hilt with her hand as it flew towards the regulars and twisted it to stick into the ground because it was spiraling too quickly to completely stop with just her hand. Turning around, Rose glared at the people she never wanted to see in her life again.
The other Jinchuuriki were on the alert as well and got their teams to safety along with Rikkaidai into the bleachers as Rose took care of the beginning of the fight.
"You!" Rose roared out as she glared at the ten Akatsuki members. "You always ruin everything!"
"We only promised you a month, and we gave you a few months instead," Pein said with a bored tone. "Is that any way to talk?"
Rose growled out before flicking out her wrists. She was still wearing her Rikkaidai jacket to cover something, but the teams didn't know what she was hiding.
It turns out that she hid the fans she got for her birthday present inside the sleeves of the jacket.
"You want a fight?" Rose taunted already spinning the fans in her hand. "You got one!" she yelled throwing the spinning weapons on the Akatsuki.
The fans flew towards the Akatsuki but missed its mark as they all dodged the weapons. The weapons, after they reached a certain distance, turned around and flew back into Rose's hands because they didn't hit anything. Spinning them again, Rose focused chakra in the fans and threw them at the Akatsuki.
The ten dodged again missing the smirk on Rose's face. Before the group knew it, the two fans multiplied into ten total fans and followed each one of them. They didn't notice that Rose had used enough chakra to create clones of the fans and place seekers on them to follow the Akatsuki.
Grabbing two ink balls from her pocket, Rose popped them. But before the ink could attach to her hands, she started spinning on the spot while lowering her arms down to the ground and then raising them up above her head once. The end result was a spiral cage made of ink surrounding Rose. The ink then shrunk until it wrapped around the girl's body.
The ink glowed before Rose bit her thumb with her fangs. Jumping up, everyone saw her reach towards the tattoos on her legs and wipe the blood across them.
The Jinchuuriki now realized what those tattoos were and only strengthened their conclusion when the girl yelled, "Summoning Jutsu!"
When the girl landed, nine plumes of smoke rose from the ground. Calling the fans back to her and getting rid of the clones, Rose said to the Akatsuki with a smirk, "You wanted the Bijuu…come and get them!" she yelled gesturing to the nine new fighters.
When the smoke cleared, nearly all of the spectators were screaming in fear as they looked upon the nine beasts.
The Akatsuki and Jinchuuriki couldn't help but be surprised except for two. Killer Bee and Yugito knew what the tattoos were meant for since the incident with the refrigerator at Rikkaidai.
"Soooooo much better to get outa there brat," one of the beasts said while stretching. It was a gigantic fox with large bunny-like ears and had nine tails.
A two-tailed cat also looked towards Rose and waved her tail saying, "Thanks a bunch kitten."
"H-How?" Konan yelled out once she saw all of the Bijuu standing there…looming over them.
"You do forget that I'm a Jinchuuriki," Rose said smirking at the ten enemy ninja. "I have a better connection with them and a pretty good relationship. Therefore with the right…symbols I can summon them…"
"The ink marks…" Itachi said trailing off at the end once he understood.
"Precisely," Rose said shrugging her shoulders. "The ink marks I drew on my body were passage ways for the Bijuu to take so that they wouldn't be summoned all in one spot which might have been disastrous." She turned back to the other Jinchuuriki who were mostly staring with wide eyes and dropped jaws. Giggling, Rose turned her head back to the Akatsuki and said, "Have fun…"
With that, the nine Bijuu charged at the Akatsuki members with Rose bringing up the rear with back-up attacks. Whenever the Akatsuki switched opponents to get a better advantage, Rose would switch the Bijuu with a replacement to get an even better advantage.
"To think that girl would be in charge of everything!" Kakuzu yelled as he dodged another attack from the crazy Nibi.
"You call her a girl," the cat demon yelled, "We call her a woman."
"The girl has had many hardships in her life…more than you can imagine," a seven-tailed bug-like demon, namely Nanabi, said while fighting off Sasori. "Nonetheless, the curse is broken on her, and she will finally be happy…as soon as we defeat you of course."
"What makes you think you can win?" Pein asked while blocking off another of Kyuubi's tails.
Instead of one of the Bijuu answering, the Akatsuki heard one unanimous, "We will win…because of our loved ones!"
Glancing for just a second, the Akatsuki saw all of the Jinchuuriki land next to Rose to join in the fight.
"Ready to go?" Rose yelled out while grabbing her fans once more.
"You bet!" she heard them all yell before they all charged at the Akatsuki. Each of them paired up with their Bijuu to take care of an opponent. Rose was by herself because she was stronger than the others.
Naruto and Kyuubi decided to team up on Pein. Killer Bee and Hachibi went against Hidan. Fu and Nanabi went up against Konan. Utakata and his Bijuu, Rokubi, went up against Tobi while Han and Gobi went up against Kakuzu. Yonbi and Roshi decided to defeat Kisame with Yagura and Sanbi fighting off Deidara. Yugito and Nibi were already growling at Zetsu while Gaara and Shukaku were already fighting with Sasori. Rose, once again, chose to fight Itachi.
The spectators watched in fear and amazement as the ninja and Bijuu worked side by side to fight the Akatsuki.
"Break them!" Rose yelled charging at Itachi once more. The other Jinchuuriki nodded in response since they knew she meant to break the seals they had on their wrists. They all smirked as they realized they would be using their full strength to get rid of Akatsuki from their lives.
Even though Rose told them to break all of their seals, she only removed enough to keep her at 50%. If she had went all out…the building might be destroyed from the fight.
Occasionally the Jinchuuriki would team up with each other if their respective opponents went to try and get help.
"Why don't you just give up?" Itachi asked as he dodged another one of Rose's attacks using his Sharingan.
"I have someone I need no…want to protect with my entire being," Rose commented before using another fan to slice at Itachi's face only able to give him a scratch. "Make that a lot of people I want to protect," she commented glancing up to the bleachers to all of the friends she had made. Giving them a fond smile in reassurance, she turned her attention back to the battle in time to avoid getting killed by Itachi's sword.
The sword pierced through her left shoulder, but she was lucky that she had moved in time to avoid getting pierced through the heart. "You wanna fight like that huh?" Rose said with a glare as she kicked him away from her. "Then so be it!" She gripped the sword hilt and pulled it out of her shoulder before throwing it like a spear in Itachi's direction. It was made only to pierce through his knee, but the boy was stupid enough to move forward and made it pierce his hip instead.
"Show me what you're made of!" Rose yelled spinning her fans once again and threw them both at Itachi from both sides.
Itachi stood still as the fans were on the wrong path to hit him. He smirked since he thought that her aim was off, so he missed the smirk the girl gave him. All of a sudden, Itachi could feel himself being tangled in a bunch of cable wire. Looking up, he saw Rose with a smug smile on her face as her arms were pulled back. He finally realized that the fans were supposed to miss in order to wrap the cable around him.
Breaking out of it as quickly as he could, he made it in time to barely avoid Rose's swipe at his face with her claws. The battle between them continued in the same manner as well as the other matches.
The Akatsuki were trying to make the Bijuu and Jinchuuriki give up by saying how useless it was to fight. Saying how they would lose, saying how they would get killed. The Jinchuuriki and Bijuu were on one side of the building with the Akatsuki staring them down on the other.
"That's enough of that!" they heard a girl yell before a blur landed on the ground in front of them creating a plume of smoke.
Once the smoke cleared, both sides saw that Rose had landed with Itachi following close behind. Not to be outdone by the Akatsuki, Rose swung her leg up behind her and successfully kicked Itachi in the face before she flipped to fling Itachi to the Akatsuki who caught him.
"Just give up Akatsuki," Rose said with a smug smirk on her face which the other Jinchuuriki mimicked. "You'll lose either way. We are stronger, faster, better, and outnumber you in so many ways."
"We won't stop until we get what we want," Pein answered calmly as he glared at the girl.
Rose scoffed before glaring back. "If it is the Jyuubi you are after…you have better luck becoming a circus clown for little kids," she commented. "No one can or will control the Jyuubi…"
"We'll see about that," Tobi said, for once never putting in the 'I'm a good boy' comment in the conversation so far.
"You want to keep fighting?" Rose asked with a raised eyebrow before she smirked and said, "Bring it on. We can take you down any day of the week."
"If you want to fight, then go back to the ninja world," Konan said turning dragging the other members of Akatsuki.
The other Jinchuuriki yelled out, "Are you chicken or something?" They were about to say more until Rose thrust out her arm to signal for the group to stop. The Bijuu never said anything as they understood the situation as well.
"I guess even the Akatsuki have a soft spot for innocent lives," Rose said with a small smile at Konan. Rose had to give it to Konan, the woman knew what she was talking about. She would regret it if Konan was killed in the battle considering the woman was a good tactician and would work well as a lawyer or with children.
The other Akatsuki were confused about her comment before they all turned to Konan for an explanation.
Before the blue-haired woman could respond, Rose answered for her by saying, "If we stay here and fight…the whole building and everyone in it will die. Fighting in the ninja world is better because people will watch the fight, but at least they can protect themselves from the attacks. I have to say Konan…you are very kind, and I do so wish that you are not killed in this battle."
The woman turned in surprise to stare at the Jinchuuriki who wished that she would live through the battle.
Rose saw the look and explained with a small smile, "You are kind, caring, and motherly. Many people in this world need that as well as in the ninja world. You could become a great lawyer with your thinking in this world or even work in an orphanage in both worlds. It would be a loss to kill you…"
Rose could see the hint of a blush on the woman's cheeks before she turned and shunshined along with the Akatsuki back to the ninja world.
Turning around, Rose saw all of the damage and winced. "That's a lot to fix…" she commented already creating a couple of shadow clones to get started on repairing all of the broken parts of the building….and there were a lot…
Once the building was all fixed about two hours later, Rose walked up to her team, and the other Jinchuuriki walked over to their respective teams.
"I'm sorry," Rose started as she hugged Marui tightly before letting go and saying, "But I have to go. You remember what the fortune tellers said don't you Bunta?"
The boy nodded in response, but that didn't mean he had to like it. Before Rose could walk away, he grabbed her arm gently and spun her around to kiss her.
When the two broke apart, Marui whispered something into her ear which she nodded to.
"I promise," the team heard her whisper back before she gave Marui a peck on the cheek goodbye. "Hope to see you all again," she said waving back to the group as she slowly let go of Marui's hand.
Everyone in the building watched as Rose dismissed the Bijuu back to their realms and gathered up the other Jinchuuriki. Some were in tears of leaving their teams which they grew attached to. Looking at the teams, she saw many of them crying as well.
"I'm sorry you guys, but you know we have to defeat them," Rose said before they all left for the ninja world and left this world behind for what some of them thought would be the last time.
"We know Rose," Fu said looking at the ground sadly, "We know…"
Rose looked back over her shoulder to stare at the National Tournament building and whispered along with the wind, "Goodbye…"