Boo! Boo! I didn't get any reviews! Where are my reviews?

Just joking. I wasn't expecting any reviews for the first chapter at all considering that this was in the crossover section and hardly anyone goes into the crossover sections. But I'm still holding out, so... if there's anyone out there who is reading this, please please review and tell everyone else about this. Everyone who would want to read this, that is.

Edit: Huh, looks like I did get reviews after all... anyways... thanks guys!

Disclaimer: I don't own KHR or any of the Yugioh franchise. I do, however own Sora (reader), Arisa and Kasumi.

Chapter One - Crab Head

"Mind if I sit here?" You asked the guy in the seat next to the one you dropped down on, not at all caring about his answer since you were already sitting in the seat and not planning on budging any time soon. You didn't think it was possible, but for some reason you felt completely drained after taking the second half of your Duel Academy entrance exam.

God, you couldn't believe that everyone was taking this thing so seriously. It was just a card game, but with the way everyone was acting, it was as if the fate of the world depended on it.

Ever since Duelist Kingdom and Battle City, the game Duel Monsters had become a huge hit amongst the masses. Everyone played it; it didn't matter if you were an adult or child, the game was for everyone.

In your view, it was a fancied up version of Magic: The Gathering with a bigger fan base and a more complicated set of rules to play by. You could play, but you were definitely not on par with the ones who played the game on a daily basis. Anyways, the only reason you were able to pass the dueling half of the written exam Reborn had forced you to take was because you were constantly forced to duel your friend Arisa who you were not ashamed to admit was much more better at dueling than you were and would ever be.

In comparison to said friend, the duel examiner you were up against had been a complete joke. The examiner been conscending through out the entire thing, treating you like an idiot who didn't know up from down. Your dueling record hardly scratched the surface of those who were actually into the game, but you still had the basics forcefully burned into your memory and knew the rules by heart.

As soon as you won, you quickly walked off the field once the examiner announced your results. Unfortunately, you passed so now all that was left to do was wait for the other students to go through their tests as you had been the last of your friends to take it.

That's right; the last of your friends.

Apparently Reborn hadn't been satisfied with the craziness he had brought with him just being in Namimori; he now had to bring it to an academy that was located on a tropical island in the middle of the ocean. So now most of the gang was going to be attending, no doubt bringing the chaos and destruction they cause on a daily basis: Arisa, Kasumi, Gokudera, Yamamoto, Ryohei (how in the world did he pass the written portion? The boxer Sun Guardian wasn't exactly well known for his... brains or anything else not concerning boxing), Chrome, who would be accompanied by Ken and Chikusa, and Hibari.

Somehow, someway, Reborn had managed to get Hibari of all people to go to Duel Academy. The Hibari who would stay vigilant in Namimori even if he was slowly dying a painful death. When asked how Reborn was able to manage that, the baby was all too glad to explain.

With a smug look on his chubby face as bragged about how he achieved the impossible (getting Hibari to leave Namimori out of his own free will could be considered one of these), your tutor said that he had convinced Hibari to leave Namimori by saying that discipline at the Academy was bad and that only Hibari would be the one to fix it. It didn't take much for Hibari to get onboard with the plan as the word 'discipline' and Reborn's coaxing that he would be the only able to instill it in the school were what clinched it.

Also, there was the fact that Hibari was a Duel Monsters closet fan; something that Reborn knew for a very long time. A fact that you were going to keep in mind since it might be useful in the future.

The only ones who wouldn't be accompanying you to the island would be Fuuta, I-pin and Lambo (since they were only nine and six respectively and way too young to be attending the Academy), Bianchi (no person in their right mind would let her step foot on the island unless they wanted to food poison all the students) as well as Haru and Kyoko, the former of the two girls much to your delight. You and Haru had never gotten along ever since the day she had decided to take a hockey stick to your head during a fight on the bridge when she deluded herself into thinking that you and your brother were corrupting Reborn's 'innocent' mind. But after Tsuna had saved the both of you from drowning all thanks to her, Haru's affections for Reborn transferred to Tsuna to your horrors.

That wasn't to say Reborn hadn't been fair and given them a chance. The baby gave the two girls the same test as he did with you and the others, but neither of them passed it since they knew little to almost nothing about the game. Naturally, they were put off by this because this meant that they would be separated from the majority of the group, but they showed it in different ways. Kyoko had been more graceful about it, showing that she was happy for the ones who would be able to go and a little sad that she had to stay behind. Haru, in the meanwhile, decided to wail about how Tsuna was going to be far away and that she wouldn't see him for a long time.

She did this for two days and the others had to constantly pull you and Gokudera back from assaulting Haru because she was driving you up the wall with her incessant wailing. She would have continued for longer than that, but even Reborn lost his patience with her and he actually threatened to shoot her with his Leon gun if she didn't shut up in the next ten seconds after he said that.

Needless to say, she shut up really fast.

Now that you thought about it, the only good thing about going to the Academy was that Haru wouldn't be there.

As you were blissfully lost in your thoughts of not having to deal with the annoying brunette for nearly a year that you didn't realize that someone was talking to you until your mind caught up with the present.

"Huh?" You gracefully said as you turned your head in the direction the voice was coming from, your long brown hair swishing against your skin as you did so.

"You're not a duelist, are you?" It was the boy you was sitting next to; the one whose opinion you didn't care about on whether he wanted you to occupy the seat beside him or not.

You raised an eyebrow at him, but it wasn't at the fact that he correctly guessed that you weren't a hardcore duelist like everyone else in the building was but rather his hair.

Your brother's hair was spiky; there was no denying that. But it was tall and fluffy spiky and could easily be subdued if a bucket of water was poured over his head, usually courtesy of Reborn. But this guy... this guy had hair looked like it could poke your eyes out if you weren't careful!

You would describe the boy's hair as being crab shaped. He had black, crab-shaped hair with yellow highlights. His skin was lightly tanned and he had dark blue eyes. Crab Head (a temporary nickname for him until you knew his actual name) had an oddly serious face for someone around your age and if you didn't know any better, you would say that he was glaring at you. But having been glared at so many times by enemies and people whose bad side you got on either intentionally or unintentionally, you knew the difference between what an actual glare was and people who just had natural stern expressions on their faces.

"Yeah, how'd you know?" You said, making no indication that you had been thinking about his hair and how he would scare children if he so much as looked at them.

The gaze in his eyes intensified and you knew that he was probing your expression for an indication of something.

"I could tell." He finally shrugged, looking away.

"Wow," You couldn't help saying, "That sure answered my question."

You were slightly surprised by the sarcasm in your tone to the reply and cursed silently as you realized that you had been rude to someone you hadn't introduced yourself to and vice versa.

Crab Head stared at you again and you could feel a twinge of annoyance as his gaze swept over you a second time. You could tell right away the boy was the observant type; determining a person through observations of their expressions, how they interacted with other people and through their actions. Your red-brown eyes stared back defiantly at his blue ones and before either of you knew it, the two of you were engaged in a staring contest.

Realizing that you weren't going to be intimidated, he looked away from you and concentrated on the single duel that was occuring on the arena at that exact moment. Too engrossed with your thoughts, you had only heard snippets of conversation from the other students around you about. From what you gathered, someone who had arrived late was now dueling a teacher as part of his entrance exam.

And that teacher wasn't playing very fair, using his own personal deck that was stacked with strong monsters, spells and trap cards, instead of one of the examiner decks like he was supposed to.

After several seconds of quiet contemplation, Crab Head said, "...I could tell with the way you held your cards and how you stood on the field. You didn't seem very comfortable during the exam and you seemed put off with the duel in general."

Your eyes narrowed. This guy had been watching you? This normally would have earned a person a punch to the face, but your test had taken place in an arena where a good portion of the student body's eyes were watching you wipe the floor with someone or getting wiped yourself after all so you could hardly fault him.

"Were you watching the whole thing?"

The boy was silent and didn't answer, so you took that as an affirmative that he had definitely watched your test through. Though why yours? The other examinees must have been more interesting than you.

"...even though you aren't a duelist, you were still able to come up with complicated strategies that take people months to come up with. But I could see that your heart just isn't in your gameplay."

You shrugged, as your heart really wasn't in it. You didn't hate the game; it just wasn't your thing and you wanted to get the duel over with.

"Well... I was pitted up against someone who beat me most of the time," Plus I had Reborn burning what cards could do into my brain every chance I got so much that I actually started dreaming about duel monsters. Damn you, Reborn... "All I can say is that I have a tactical mind and a friend who is really good at dueling." You paused and threw in, "and a really sadistic teacher who likes torturing me on a daily basis and is determined that I do things right or else."

Hopefully he wouldn't ask what the 'else' part would be. Reborn was probably spying on you through a pair of binoculars and was aiming some sort of rifle at your head that he would shoot if you were to talk. That happened to Tsuna once and you were there as main witness.

Crab Head gave you a strange look, but you weren't offended. Once upon a time, you would have been weirded out by what you were saying too. You still got weirded out occasionally, but after nearly two years of having Reborn around, you were pretty flexible when it came to what life decided to throw at you.

Another staring contest later, you decided to speak. "So what's your name? Or should I refer to you as 'guy who sits next to me in the duel examination' for the rest of the year?"

For the first time you had talked to each other, he smirked. He held out a hand towards you. "Fudo Yusei. Or in western terms, Yusei Fudo."

"Sawada Sora." You said, finally knowing crab head's name. "Eastern pronounciation. Or Sora Sawada if you prefer western." You grabbed the hand he held out and shook it. His hand, compared to yours, was big.

Turning back to the arena, you jerked your thumb at the single duel that was currently taking place. "By the way, the teacher down there... uh, he's a guy, right?"

Yusei turned to the duel as well and watched as the teacher's own monster fell on top of him. "Uh, yeah he is."

"...heh. Just wanted to confirm that."

Done! In case you haven't realized this yet, this is AU and Yusei and the others exist in the GX timeline instead of the future. So yeah...

And if you must know... yes, Yusei is a Reader pairing choice in this. He and Jaden... there will be three other choices, but at your choosing. So have fun thinking of the various characters Sora/Reader can be with. Also, it can be from any of the three animes as well as any of the seasons of GX. I'll work hard to try and incorporate other elements of KHR in further chapters.

Also, yes, as the character in this you don't like Haru. I can't imagine anyone liking a person who introduced a hockey stick to their head.