(Naruto) Crimson Akane Tenzō (Revised)

Though she had no parents growing up, she had aunts and uncles, brothers and younger brothers; Though she was hopeless at hand-to-hand combat, she knew potions and the Cang Network; Though plenty of people liked her, she liked the one who had won her heart little by little, like a gentle stream. Though his father was the idol he admired, and his younger brother someone he wanted to protect, how could he not know to save a place for me! ----- Namikaze Akane's Nth complaint about a certain upright young man. Though he was one of only sixty survivors, his seniors in the ANBU kept picking on him; Though he really liked that adorable girl, he had never imagined she could like him back; Though he had always admired the Fourth Hokage and knew protecting the Nine-Tails' jinchuriki was his duty, couldn't he be allowed to be a little selfish, when he had realized he was smitten with the beauty of her reddish hair fanned across his shoulder, and with the little temper and willfulness behind her gentle smile? ------ Tenzou (Yamato) carefully hid the feelings he'd developed for the girl. She was the person he wanted most, and the one he could never reach. A story about a girl who isn't much of a child and an upright young man. If you're interested in the story about Aunt Mei, feel free to click through!