Fragile Blossoms of Spring
March 13th - Invisible
Hinata sometimes felt invisible. She was overlooked in the slightest ways: her father's gaze passing over her absently at the dinner table, fellow rookies passing her in the streets without a word, Neji's quiet disdain and unconcern for her. On some particularly bad days, she would even be ignored by her teammates, to busy arguing with each other, or her sensei, too preoccupied with their next mission.
When she was young, she used to believe there was something wrong with her - that somehow, no one was able to see her. She felt that she could blend into the walls, that she was overlooked simply because she was not there. Later, when she became older, she realized that it was just something about herself that caused people's eyes to pass over her indifferently, that there was some property of her personality that made her less interesting then the others to her right and left. Hinata soon learned to block the hurt caused by their lack of acknowledgement, but it still could not stop her heart from aching when the people she felt closest to ignored her as if she was not there.