I don't know how many of you have ever watched an anime called Danshi Kokosei no Nichijou, also called "The Daily Lives of High School Boys"... But this is where the inspiration for this comes from. :D

I watched the show with my boyfriend a few months back, and I immediately noticed two things going into the first episode: Kenichi Suzumura and Miyu Irino. And what did that make me think of? Sora and Zack. And the fanfictions ideas I developed from watching and completing that series spawned a LOT of ideas. So I decided to build on them, and center this around Sora, Riku and Zack in their high school days.

Pretty much, Sora is 15, Riku is 16, Zack is 18. And there will be multiple other characters in their daily lives.

I'm gonna create a series of drabbles, short stories (Yes, there could even be arcs if I so choose for this) and even poetry sometimes.

But starting this project BY NO MEANS signifies that I won't continue on other projects such as Gravekeeper, which is my main fanfiction project in addition to my own original stories. I will simply upload these as I write them out and plan them. Yes, I know how to keep up with multiple stories at once. XD

It all begins... with a pledge.

Pledge 1: -Intros-

It was July 21st, the first free day of summer vacation for elementary through high school students in Japan. Sora Hikari, Riku Tamohara and Zack Fair all sat in Sora's surprisingly clean and tidy room... spare all the issues of various manga lying about in front of Sora. All three were at the small table, tea cups half full and still steaming.

Everything was dull, as things usually tended to be during the summer for a group of teenage boys without jobs. Sora was reading one of his favorite shonen manga, while Riku and Zack plainly stared at Sora and the ceiling respectively, occasionally swapping their glances. Sora didn't take his gaze off of the manga, occasionally giving off a slight snicker or a scoff. He had been at this for twenty minutes now. It wasn't too out of the ordinary for him in their eyes, however.

It was at that moment that Riku went through his drawstring bag and decided to scan through his novice collection of books before deciding on his paperback edition of 'Catcher in the Rye,' a cult classic in his eyes and one of his favorites.

"You know, intros to stories are usually boring." Zack began, rolling over to lie on his side and nibbling on a piece of chocolate from his own bag. The statement caught Riku's attention rather easily. "No matter the genre, every story is just so dull. The dialogue is atrocious, the plotline tends to be cliché, there's never anything too special about the characters until you dive in further into their stories. Seldom in, say, a video game, there's an introduction of an explosion or a battle and an awesome, attractive lead…"

Riku rolled his eyes. "So your favorites start with things blowing up behind a cool-looking character? Shows a lot about your charisma, you know. Evidently, you aren't fond of fine literature…"

"What? I'm a man of action! That's why I plan on joining SOLDIER!"

"Right. You are a third year now, you get that option." Riku mumbled, cool and collected gaze practically pouring from his aquamarine eyes. "Us first years don't get that much freedom."

"Well, it's summer, we've gotta spice up the introduction to it!" Zack beamed before looking to Sora. Still not doing much. Zack rolled his eyes and then grabbed the manga from him.

"HEY!" Sora hissed. "I was READING that!" Zack tossed the book aside and it accidentally hit the wall, causing Sora to appear almost mortified. "NO! DADDY'S COMING!" He jolted up and ran for the manga, picking it up and holding it close.

"…Otaku." Riku and Zack mumbled simultaneously, rolling their eyes.

"THERE'S NOTHING WRONG WITH MY LIFESTYLE!" The brunette whined, eyeing the figurines on the shelves for a moment. He grinned sheepishly. "NOTHING, you hear?"

"Forget your lifestyle!" Zack exclaimed, now up on his feet. Riku and Sora just stared at him before both simultaneously glanced down at their books and continued to read. "STOP IT! Let's get air, go out, do SOMETHING besides read!"

"Is it really that bad that we're reading? Sure, Sora's mind-numbing himself with manga, but he's still reading…"

"You guys are first years now, you're supposed to want to go out to party with the seniors, fine cute girls, want to DO something with your lives!"

"Just because we aren't fully engrossed in the desires of a social life of such standard at this precise moment doesn't implicate that we aren't going to seek typical high school life in the near future." And Sora never once looked up from his manga as he spoke.

"…Was Sora just being smart?" Riku gasped. Sora shot the silver-haired boy a glare before returning to his manga. Zack blinked a few times out of sheer shock before reluctantly shaking his head and then crossing his arms.

"…Anyways." Zack grabbed the manga again from Sora, then the book from Riku.

"HEY!" Sora roared.

"My novel!" Riku exclaimed.

"You get these back AFTER we get air. Now let's go." Zack beamed. Sora and Riku glared daggers at their raven-haired elder. "To Emerald Beach we go!"

"…Fine. Whatever."

And away they went, only to find themselves instead in a grocery store with Zack buying an excess amount of snacks. The twenty minute walk that it would have normally taken them ended up taking forty five minutes because Zack got indecisive on just what he wanted. THEN they headed for the beach, where they sat and talked about school and future plans while Zack stuffed his face and refused to share a majority of what he had paid for.

"So, it begins again, huh?" Zack stated before taking a swig of his vanilla Ramune.

"Let's make a pledge on this introduction to summer." Sora began, now up and standing on one of the largest rocks of the shoreline, pressing a fist over his heart lightly. He appeared almost heroic. "I pledge to finish the full series of the shonen run classics!"

"In one summer?" Riku asked. "You do know that the older issues are hard to track down, right? It'd be easier to just buy the books."

"You're SUPPOSED to make near impossible pledges, Riku! That's what makes things eventful, after all!"

"Yeah, Sora's right. It's fun to challenge yourself. Like this." Zack stated, now up as well and assuming the same position as Sora. "I pledge to go on a strict diet and work out in order to prepare myself to get into SOLDIER next spring!" Zack then looked to Riku again. "See? When have you ever known me not to get ahold of something sweet? It's not impossible, but it's probable."

Riku just chuckled a bit before looking out towards the ocean, the light summer breeze flowing through his hair. The three were silent as they gazed out into the ocean before Sora knelt down and placed his hands on Riku's shoulders.

"Come on, Riku, you've gotta do a pledge too!" Sora stated, giving him a cheesy grin. Riku glanced up at him and smiled as well.

"All right then. Um…" Riku stood up as well, slowly closing his eyes and placing a fist over his heart like his two companions. "I pledge… to begin a novel."

"What? You wanna spend your whole summer writing? That's boring." Zack replied.

"Hey, you said impossible pledges…" Riku then reached down and grabbed hold of one of Zack's sodas, causing the spiky-haired raven boy's mouth to gape open. "You don't mind."

"THAT'S MINE!" Zack tried to snatch it back, but Riku continued to dodge his attempts to grab it until Zack finally tackled him onto the sand. Sora just watched in amusement, hands behind his head.

"An intro to the days of our lives, huh…? Sounds like it'd be a fun time." Then Sora's gaze darted up towards the brimming sunlight shimmering over the ocean.

And so it begins. 0_0