She'd been blind.
Hyuga Hinata almost laughed at the irony, a small bitter smile on her face.
She truly was a fool, she'd been revolving around the sun so much that it blinded her.
Those precious, brief moments in which she pretended.
In which they pretended.
No, she wasn't the moon to his sun. Never had been. Never had been the one his attention always focused on, the one he chased so relentlessly, the one he truly wanted by his side.
No, she had been the stars. The small, little lights in his peripheral view, present but lacking to the shining beauty of the mysterious orb.
She never even competed, for how could she when she had always been the other woman?
She may seemingly have the prize, to be the wife and he the husband till death do them apart, but oh, no.
She had been the obstacle in their star-crossed lovers story, like the ones Kurenai-sensei secretly enjoyed reading.
She had been the one he was conducting an affair with, as what they had was without doubt much deeper and longer than the measly eight months of marriage life she and her new husband shared.
A fool, a homewrecker, the consolation prize, those were what she was.
How blind and foolish she had been.