Thanks for all the reviews everyone! I really appreciate it. It keeps me motivated to write more. For all of you waiting on this final update, here's Chapter 10!

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"7games to 6 Shiraishi wins!"

"Good game." said Kajimoto.

"You're really strong too." said Shiraishi.

"It be great to play again sometime."

"Yeah."

"Sorry, but I gotta make a phone call... That's weird, Wakato's cell phone is turned off. He only turns it off when he is practicing alone at Jyosei..."

"He was here too? I checked all of the courts here and there's no sign of him or Kintarou."

Shared thought: "They ditched us."

"At least you don't have to worry about a first year getting lost in Tokyo. Kintarou has no sense of direction at all."

"No point in chasing after them, we might as well practice here."

"Agreed."

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Later...

"Hey Shiraishi, I watched a video Seigaku's match against Shintenhouji at the Nationals. You beat Fuji, right?" asked Kajimoto.

"Yeah. Wasn't Fuji the one you would've been facing in the Kantou Tournament?"

"He was, but the singles 1 match was never played."

"We didn't get to singles 1 either, but Kintarou still got to play Echizen."

"Echizen's no joke, he beat Shinjou, Hanamura sensei's ultimate masterpiece."

"Doesn't it scare you when she calls you guys her masterpieces?"

"... ... ... ... you get used to it. Can we please change the topic?"

"...Hey, isn't your school supposed to aim for perfection? Who started that?"

"I wish you wouldn't ask that question, it was mostly Coach Hanamura's idea but I guess you could blame the rest of it on me, cause it was me that strongly agreed on that aim."

"...huh?"

"Well, at that time as captain of the team, I thought it would be best if we focused on winning. I just wouldn't be able to live it down if I lost. But after we lost to Seishun in the Kantou Tournament, I started to think that there was something seriously wrong with perfection."

"Funny, I thought the same. Before we played Seigaku, I felt that as the captain, I had to win at any cost. So I played perfect tennis the whole time, even though I knew it was boring. I also dumped my girlfriend." Shiraishi muttered that last line out of guilt hoping that Kajimoto wouldn't hear.

Unfortunately for him Kajimoto did hear it, "YOU DID WHAT?!?!"

"I said I played perfect tennis the whole time, even though I knew it was boring."

"No, what you said after that."

"Never mind that, it's ok now..."

"Alright, but I have a question. Did you play perfect tennis against Fuji?"

"Yeah, but I still nearly lost. And it didn't help that the wind changed directions after Fuji hit his last shot."

"So you think you won because Fuji's Hakuryuu was blown off course by the wind?"

"...yes."

"You don't use perfect tennis anymore unless absolutely necessary, right? Even without it you still beat me."

"Perfection's boring, don't you think?"

"Couldn't have said it better myself."

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For the last two lines, I deliberately wrote it so that you couldn't tell who said which line. Again the Shiraishi dumping his girlfriend line was kinda borrowed from autumn-leaf16. Hope she doesn't mind! If you want to know more about that, you can read her fanfic "Sacrifice" and the sequel "Chapters". I said this was the last chapter but I've decided to put in a surprise bonus chapter...

btw if it was yaoi, who do you think should be the uke?