Triple Dog Dare (KankuroxKiba)

Chapter One

A/N: hey guys! This is a high school AU. So it's gonna be in the year of 2019 which was when I was a junior in high school which is what Kankuro is. If any of you are coming from my other Kankuro x Kiba fic, thanks for sticking with me and I hope you'll like this one too even though it's a bit different! I hope everyone enjoys!

Chapter One

 Ask me how I feel about this school and I wouldn't really have an answer. It's better than the last school we were at, for my brother at least, but I still don't have friends. My dad says we moved because of his job but I think it's because my brother was getting bullied and my sister got suspended for hitting a kid who made fun of him. The whole situation sucked. Obviously for my brother and sister, but for me too.

I mean I'm the older brother, so I should have been the one protecting him, but my older sister had to step in. Granted, she was a freshman in high school, so she had that power over the little seventh graders who were giving my brother a tough time. I was just an eighth grader who didn't care much about school or drama. I just went on with my day, going with the flow, not happy, but not unhappy. Just living. That's been my life so far, even now as a junior in high school. It's spring, so I'll be a senior when fall comes around. That sounds so crazy. Life can go by in a blink of an eye and it's not even that fun.

I don't mind school but it's not all that exciting. I think if I had friends it may be a little more enjoyable, but I don't. And I'm not even sure why. I'm not shy. I talk to people, especially when they talk to me. I crack jokes and they're pretty funny if I do say so myself. I don't look weird, I'm average height and I'm not a red head with a birthmark on the forehead like my brother. But at this school, even he has managed to make one or two friends. We've been here for three years. I know everyone's names and they know mine. I just never clicked with anyone. It sucks. A lot of people establish their friend groups in middle school and won't branch out after that. So that leaves me alone.

But it's fine. It's not like I'm isolated. I still talk to people before class starts and I sit with a group of guys at lunch but I don't even know much about them. I know their names, they know mine, some of them pronounce it wrong even after knowing me for two years, but it's fine. Kankuro. That's my name. I feel like it shouldn't be that hard, right? Kan-kuro. Kankuro. Easy. Whatever, anyways, we eat our lunch and laugh at each other's jokes, then the bell rings and we wave goodbye. No real connections.

Not to mention my dad is an ass, my brother keeps to himself, my sister is surrounded by friends, and we don't talk to our extended family. So yeah. I'm pretty much alone. I wish I at least had a dog or something. But no, I really just have myself.

...

"Alright class!"

The bell rings and Mrs. P (I don't remember her full name even though I've been in this class for almost a year) comes to the front of the room to address us. Mrs. P is cool but she can be a bit strict sometimes. This is chemistry, last period of the day, so people don't really want to be here. Chemistry is hard and everyone is done with the day and wants to go home.

"We're going to be starting a final project," she goes on. "It will only be worth about 6% of your overall grade, but it is the last project of the school year. Then we'll work on finals."

Finals aren't too bad, actually. I'm a pretty good test taker, I don't get nervous or anything and I'd like to say I'm pretty smart. Sometimes I just have to dig in my brain and I'll eventually find the answer. But when Mrs. P says this, the class fills with groans.

"I know, I know," she says. "But we're doing this project first, and trust me, it's not that hard. It is going to be a partner project."

I perk up at that. A partner project? I look around the room. Chemistry is usually a junior dominated class but I see about a third of the students are sophomores. Just students who want to impress colleges or something, I don't know.