Perfection

Disclaimer: I don't own Prince of Tennis or Shiraishi.

Author's Note: I tried to capture a little of Shiraishi essence, but this kind of failed. But I find it better than my Shiraishi feel uncomfortable around Jousei Shounan fic.


Had it been my sense of duty and responsibility that led to this? Something that I had grown to detest, but still use as I know it'll be a sure win. This Perfect Tennis that I created through sweat, blood, and tears. One would believe it to be my pride and joy, and at a point in time, it was. I was proud and was given the title of "Bible" as my tennis was perfect.

Time passed since it was first created, and I've grown bored. Is it wrong to grow bored of something that you've spent so long trying to perfect? Perfection, too, has its drawbacks. You grow bored…What fun is it when you cease to have a challenge? Having experienced on being on the top of the world in my region, it's hard. When you no longer have competition and swipe them all out, the joy has left.

People strive to be perfect. And when you experience it, it's an entirely different situation than what you thought it would be. I know…I know that there are some who strive to be average when they're perfect.

Could that have been why I've taken up another form of tennis; a style of tennis that I find myself enjoying, a style of tennis that allows me to have challenges, a style of tennis that gives me the freedom that I longed for since this all first began.

It's hard now that the Nationals are all over. It'll be a while before the team is all back together in Shitenhouji Koukou, even Chitose choose to head off there. I can't wait until that time comes. The time where I can show everyone not my perfect tennis, but this new style of tennis that I cultivated.

As I look behind me to see the encouraging looks of my teammates, it feels as if the duties that I still carry lightened. After all these years, I can finally tell myself that I can be free. No longer do I need to be held down by perfection. No, I'm free now. Perfection will have to take a seat in the back from now on.

I've just begun my journey. I have a whole future ahead of me, time where I'm able to create things for myself that I would never imagine of. And to think, at first it was just a glimmering dream to be released from the bible. However, it was a glimmering dream after leaving footsteps of pride and passion, which I found a boundless future that I can believe in.


It's rather OOC. I wanted to write it with like a country kind of accent like I've done in one of my past fics involving Shiraishi, Kenya, and an OC, but I don't think it'll fit since I tried to get a serious kind of atmosphere here.

And if you guessed the last paragraph has some of the lyric translation of Shiraishi's song Bible.