PoT Ficlet: Perfection [PG] [Kajimoto; Kajimoto/Wakato]

Title: Perfection, or, 20 Facts About Kajimoto Takahisa
Author: Ria
Disclaimer: All Konomi's. :)
Rating: PG
Words: 700
Spoilers: Some regarding Jyousei Shounan's match against Seigaku, and little bits of the Junior Senbatsu Arc.
Character/Pairing: Kajimoto; Kajimoto/Wakato; vague Kajimoto/Tezuka and Tezuka/Ryoma
Summary: Jyousei Shounan is perfection: 20 facts about Kajimoto Takahisa.
Author's Notes: Because Jyousei doesn't get enough love, and neither does Kajimoto. And because I had another panic attack about my tenipurifantasy fic and how it won't finish, and immediately started writing something else, of course. :((

Perfection
or
20 Facts About Kajimoto Takahisa

 
1. No one in his family has ever played tennis before him.

2. Kajimoto has never told anyone the reason why he started playing tennis, and he has no intention of ever doing so. What he does tell people is that when he first picked up a tennis racquet he knew, even though that wasn't his intention at the time.

3. The first time he served a ball in front of his parents, his mother cried because she thought he had broken his spine. His father wasn't impressed until he had the speed of Kajimoto's serve calculated.

4. Kajimoto has always been serious. He was baffled by the constant comparisons made of him to Seigaku's Tezuka, until he actually met him.

5. Kajimoto's family has been wealthy for several generations, and so he has been raised to expect the best. They chose Jyousei Shounan because of its prestigious reputation and state of the art technology. He chose Jyousei Shounan because of its state of the art technology and because of Hanamura-sensai's coaching methods. Kajimoto has always been interested in perfection.

6. Kajimoto and Reiji catch Hanamura-sensai's eye on their first day. It soon becomes clear that, even though Kajimoto is considered superior, Reiji has something that he doesn't. Kajimoto thinks this is all right the day that he first sees Wakato.

7. Kajimoto has a fan-club that is as large as Wakato's, but his fans are less inclined to approach him because he is too reserved. According to Wakato, anyway.

8. Kajimoto knows the day will come when Reiji surpasses him. He fears this day because any player who uses tennis to harm another is not a player to be trusted. Kajimoto's stomach drops when he hears the words 'deep impulse', and he loathes the mingled shine and revulsion in Hanamura-sensai's eyes when she utters them.

9. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery. Kajimoto thinks it's the highest form of pain. Whenever he hears someone say that Wakato's tennis is cheating and simple, he thinks of the hours Wakato spends watching the pro matches, and then the hours he spends practising and mimicking until his form is perfect, and knows that person is wrong.

10. Conditioning is perfection. Masterpieces are perfection. Perfect things are flawless.

Sometimes, Kajimoto does not feel very perfect.

11. The one and only time Wakato called him 'Hisa, Kajimoto refused to speak to him for a week. It was the same when he tried Taka. Finally, Wakato realised that nicknames weren't very important.

12. Jyousei Shounan is a school that strives for perfection and excellence. The tennis team isn't particularly close as a result, since there is always another masterpiece in the works. Kajimoto is captain only in name, since there is Hanamura-sensai.

It isn't until they face Seigaku that Kajimoto wonders if there is something wrong with perfection.

13. Kajimoto has never considered himself to be gay. He just seems more attracted to guys than girls. It takes Wakato for him to realise this.

14. Wakato is more concerned about his hair than Kajimoto is, though it seems like it's the other way round. Wakato has girls to impress, after all.

15. Wakato fell onto the floor while howling with laughter when Kajimoto revealed to him that he did yoga. Kajimoto trounced him that afternoon - 6-2 - and Wakato never laughed at him again.

16. Kajimoto always regrets not being able to play Fuji Syuusuke, but then he plays Tezuka during the Junior Senbatsu camp, and decides that life is too short for regrets.

17. Kajimoto found himself briefly attracted to Tezuka while at the camp, but then he saw how Tezuka and Echizen looked at each other, and knew there was nothing in it for him.

Opposites that attract are better anyway, Wakato has told him repeatedly.

18. Kajimoto knows that he owes more than a little to Hanamura-sensai, but when he watches Ryuzaki-sensai and her players when they play against Seigaku, and then her attitude when he was in her group at the Junior Senbatsu camp, he wonders if there is something missing.

19. The first time Wakato kisses him, Kajimoto thinks he is perfect.

20. There will always be tennis.