Triple Dog Dare (KankuroxKiba)

Chapter Two

A/N: hey guys! This story starts off a bit slow so bare with me lol. Also I absolutely love the art for this chapter! The style is awesome and it totally captures how they would all look in the modern world. Enjoy!

Chapter Two

My dad isn't home. That's fine. He does that. Me and my sister, Temari, know how to cook. We make spaghetti.

I spend some time with my siblings but I eventually make my way back to my bedroom for some much needed alone time. I grab my laptop out of my backpack and boot it up. It's super old and is basically hanging by a thread, but it still works. Practically everything is online now, at least school wise. We can turn our homework in early and we have to type most essays or textbook answers anyway.

I check my phone while my ancient computer makes a whirring noise as it starts up. There's a snapchat from Kiba. We added each other in class but this is the first time he's snapped me. I figure it's just a streaks thing because if it's something important about the project, he'd probably text me.

I open the app and there's his bitmoji. He chose the selfie where he's wearing sunglasses and smiling smugly. That seems to fit his demeanor I think. I click on the red square and sure enough, it's just a slightly blurry selfie of him, giving the camera a thumbs up. He wrote "This project will be E Z Pee Z" and it takes longer than it should have for me to figure out that that means "Easy peasy." I send him a thumbs up selfie back and say, "Sure will!" Basic response, I know, but whatever. I don't usually snap many other people, at least not on a regular basis.

I look at Kiba's story and he only has one thing, a picture of a soccer field with the caption "Today's practice drained me," and a tired looking emoji.

So he plays soccer. There's another thing I know about him. He's a sophomore who plays soccer and he has a friend who is friends with Gaara. And that's about all my knowledge of my chemistry partner. He seems cool though, maybe we could be friends.

Well, I think that about everyone I meet, hoping for some kind of connection with someone. The last person was the main guy at my lunch table, and we're friends I guess. And now I'm buddies with all the other guys at the table and sometimes we reply to each other's snapchat stories and talk, but other than that we don't hang out. Or at least, I don't hang out with them. I don't know, they probably hang out together.

Whatever. If we become friends or not, at least I don't have a bad partner for this project. Kiba is funny so that'll keep me entertained.

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School is annoying today. It's a Thursday, the day after we were assigned our chemistry partners. I slept fine and when I woke up, my dad was passed out on the couch. Sometimes it's nice to know he's alive and not dead in a ditch somewhere. I mean, he sucks but he still goes to work and pays the bills while we're at school. But whatever, I bike to school this morning as I usually do, but it rained a little. Nothing too bad but I was worried about my computer being safe in my backpack.

I'm sitting in my math class right now, looking at the last test we took. The teacher just handed them back. I got a C+ which I'm not happy about. I usually have As or Bs in my classes and getting a C on this test will bring my overall math grade down to a B-. I try not to obsess over grades, but I do want to go to college and I'll need some kind of scholarship to help pay for it. I'm not expecting a full ride or anything, but a little help would be nice.

Anyways, now I'm taking notes and listening intently to the teacher about what we messed up on for the test. As long as I do well on the final, I'll be fine. But I'll try not to let it stress me out too much.