Chapter 3

Dreamscape

"Where am I?" Kaiba looked around. All he could see was empty space. Below him clouds were passing by. Above him was what appeared to be the solar system.

"Oh, that's… that's where I was the last time I dreamed… I… I can see me and Joey down there. What does this all mean?"

"It means that you two are stuck this way, unless of course you can accomplish this task…"

"What task?" Kaiba looked around franticly for the speaker but couldn't see anyone.

"You must-"

End Dreamscape

The first thing Kaiba noticed was a sharp pain in his back. Slowly he opened his eyes.

He was in a small messy room. At first he thought he was still asleep. Then he remembered what had happened the other day and that he was in Joey's room.

Inspecting his back he found that the thing causing the pain was an old math book. "I wish Joey had a bed that I couldn't roll out of that easily…"

Kaiba stood up and began to head for the door. On his way across the room he tripped over the box to a board game, crashed into the closet, and had a large pile of clothes fall on top of him. "Would it kill this kid to clean his room a little?"

"WHAT'S THAT NOISE?" Kaiba shuddered as he heard Joey's dad in the other room. In several minutes the other day he'd learned to fear Joey's dad.

"N-nothing"

"BRAT" Kaiba braced himself for another beating. He'd been beaten a lot lately. Luckily Joey's dad decided not to bother coming.

Kaiba made a face and peeled a he didn't want to know what off of his head. "Eck. I've been in the same clothes for… well, however long the mutt wore this outfit plus a day I guess. He's gotta have more than one set of clothes in this dump."

After rummaging around and finally settling on wearing a plain red tee-shirt and jeans Kaiba was ready to go see Mokuba.

Just as he was reaching for the door knob the door opened up to reveal Serenity on the other side.

"Hi, Joey. You got my message right? Isn't it great that mom's letting me spend the week here in Domino?" Kaiba just stared at Joey's little sister, almost in horror I need to tell her what happened right? Couldn't she visit after me and Joey fix this problem?

"C'mon, before dad wakes up! I met Yugi on the way here and he said he's going over to Tea's! Let's go!" Before Kaiba could say anything Serenity was dragging him down the stairs of the apartment building.

"Serenity I-You can't-I need to tell you-where are we going?"

Serenity giggled "I already told you, Joey!"

They were now in a crowded street. I can't tell her I'm Kaiba with all these people around! Now what? Today's gonna be a nightmare!

OOOOO

Joey sat on a chair in the room hidden behind the arcade. This must all be part of Kaiba's plan to eliminate the world's population…

There was a clicking noise and the door opened. "I'm sorry!" Mokuba cried from the other side of the door "I forgot I left you in here!"

Joey bolted out of the room. Then, remembering Kaiba's threat as to what would happen if his reputation was ruined, skidded to a halt.

He spun towards Mokuba "Where's Kaiba? I've got some really important stuff to tell-ah…ah… AH-CHOO!"

Mokuba's face held a very guilty expression "You got a cold being locked up in there! I'll call for a car to take you home!" He went of to a near by phone.

When he came back Joey started protesting the action "I have something to tell Kaiba! My little sister is gonna be here today! I can't go 'home' I need to talk to him!"

Mokuba shook his head "I'll deliver the message, you're going to stay at the house today! When Seto's sick he still works but he at least does it at home."

" I ain't Seto."

"Obviously…" Mokuba murmured.

Joey gave in. Mokuba had already called the car after all "Just tell him this…"

OOOOO

Kaiba sat on a couch in Tea's house feeling rather uncomfortable. He'd never actually been in one of the friendship possy's houses before.

He looked over at the other side of the room where Serenity was watching Tristan and Duke argue. There's no way that girl doesn't know that they're fighting over her.

Tea and Yugi had gone of to the entrance room. Why that was he didn't know and was pretty sure he didn't want to know.

He let out a bored sigh and flipped on the TV in hopes of finding something to do. First he watched about ten minutes of a horror movie. When asked by Tristan if he'd' gotten over his fear of ghosts and realized he wasn't acting like Joey so he switched channels. The second show was a news report. Definitely not like Joey. The show after that was a blind date show. He couldn't stand those types of shows.

Twenty eight channels later, one of them being a new episode of 'wonder pets' which Serenity had dubbed 'Joey's favorite show'-Kaiba knew he wouldn't hesitate to bring that up if Joey threatened to tell someone what his favorite color was-there was a knock at the door. A few minutes later Mokuba entered the room.

Kaiba's face lit up at the sight of his little brother. To his delight, Mokuba sat down next to him.

"Big brother," Mokuba whispered "Joey wanted me to tell you that you need to duel for him in a tournament tonight… and he said to keep Tristan and Duke from finding out that Serenity's here. Good job with that." Kaiba snorted. It wasn't his problem if a couple of Joey's friends fought over the mutt's sister.

"I'll do the tournament for him, but I probably wouldn't listen to that sister bit if I'd heard it before they found out. Why couldn't Joey tell me this?"

Mokuba made a face "He got sick 'cuzz he was locked in that back room all night, I… forgot he was there…"

"He got sick in my body?!" Kaiba hissed.

Mokuba backed away from his brother a little "Seto… it's my fault…"

Kaiba gave up on it. "What's he doing now?"

"Well…" Mokuba looked up thoughtfully "He should be in your room. I told him about how you don't let anyone in there so if he's in there no one will notice that 'you're' not working" Kaiba nodded.

OOOOO

Joey sat on Kaiba's bed and coughed a little. This guy's body is way too frail if he gets sick this easily.

He rolled over and rested his head on what he'd decided was the fluffiest pillow on the bed This room isn't so bad once you get over the fact that it's pink… What kind of guy who's a stuck up jerk picks pink for a favorite color?

He picked Kaiba's deck up of the counter. Make it to the duel for me, okay? And you'd better not let Tristan and Duke see Serenity. There's no way I'm letting either of those two get my approval of her.

Author's note: I was forced to watch an episode of Wonder Pets once while babysitting my cousin Kayla. I still haven't quite gotten over the experience so I feel a need to torture Kaiba with it. I can promise you it will come up again in this fanfic.

Normally get a chapter of any story I'm writing done in a day but this one took a little longer because my file was deleted by someone when I didn't really want to see the presidential address even though my teacher assigned watching it as homework.