A.N. - Heh, didn't think anyone would guess the spanner thing anyways. Here's my motivations: simply because Kaiba and a guy called Spanner from K.H. Reborn share a voice actor, Kenjiro Tsuda, he sounds fucking sexy, and I freaking love his voice. Derp-de-doo~

6. Children's card game. Not!

"Man, just rest for a while. You've been working non-stop for two days!"

"Forget it. I won't rest until I one-up that fucker."

"But… but he's insane! Bars-in-the-window crazy! Can you really think like an insane person?"

"He's crazy and I'm not, which means he's at a disadvantage. That just makes it even easier."

"Agh, alright, whatever you say. I can't keep up with all this. I'm going home 'cause I got like two weeks' worth of homework to do."

"Come here first. I wanna show you something."

"What is it?"

As soon as Joey approached him, Kaiba kissed him for a couple of minutes, tongue curling and twisting around his with a sultriness that made his knees go weak. "Never mind. Travel safe."

"Y-you too." He tripped on a wire on his way out but Kaiba was nice enough to pretend he didn't notice it.

oOo

Elsewhere

"Do you think the Master will take long? I have to go to the bathroom."

"Shh! He's coming."

The Master slowly descended the stairs of the Kaiba mansion with a glass of wine on one hand.

"Good morning, gentlemen. Any luck in finding our elusive friend?"

A short, spiky-haired boy spoke, while keeping his head down. "No yet, sir. But one of the night guards said he saw someone that looked like him a few days ago in the slums."

"Wonderful. Call him here if you would be so kind."

The boy left and returned with a taller person, his pointy hair made him look even taller. He kneeled in front of the Master. "Sir."

"So? You think you might have seen my little lost lamb then?"

"Yes sir. I followed him for some time, but then he entered a store and… vanished."

The Master frowned. "Couldn't he have left through the back door?"

"The problem is… there wasn't a back door. It was a small store, and I checked everywhere. But there was no sign of him"

The Master drank his wine while looking around pensively. "Alright. I want one person inside his room at all times and another guarding the door. Mr. Taylor, you did a nice job. Please go back to your post and continue to keep an eye out for him. As for the rest of you, ask Mr. Taylor the exact location the runaway was last seen and patrol that area." He addressed a handsome black-haired boy with green eyes. "Mr. Devlin, I need to see you in my chambers."

He made a small reverence with his head bowed. "Yes, Master Wheeler."

Master Joey Wheeler put the empty glass on a table and left, unaware that he was being watched by the one he was looking for.

Enjoy being on the top while you can, "Master". I will put you back in your place soon enough. A while later, after everyone left the room, insane-Seto Kaiba came out of the cupboard, starving and fuming in rage, and entered the secret lab.

oOo

As it turned out, building a dimension crossing machine wasn't exactly an easy task. Kaiba had disassembled the sense disruptor (he refused to call it 'The Moe Machine of Dreams') and examined it thoroughly to try and understand how the other Kaiba's mind worked. It hardly made any sense, and if his theory that there had to be some sort of machine on the other side that connected with this one, like his hologram projector did for the other was correct, then he was royally screwed. He made some notes on a whiteboard, sighed and slumped on a nearby chair.

"It took me almost a year to build it, you know. You expect to just figure it out in a couple of days?"

Kaiba jumped from the chair and picked up a blowtorch from the workbench. He pointed it at the crazy Kaiba. "Hands up!"

"Easy there, cowboy. I'm not here to fight." He raised his hands while trying for his most innocent smile.

"Put the knife and the dimension machine on the table." The crazy Kaiba did so and returned his hands in the air, while Kaiba took both objects and searched him. "Are you going to explain yourself or do I have to make you?"

"Ooh, kinky. I guess we're more similar than I thought. Anyway, I'm sure you heard me the other day when I explained where I came from. And the reason I came here in the first place is because I need your help."

Kaiba glared at him. "You need my help and you clocked me?!" Not to mention how you abused my... guest.

"So I got a little nervous with the imminence of our first encounter. Plus I got jealous of you kissing him. Whenever I showed up, you were… playing, so I would always start watching (and secretly mess with you, as I'm sure you're aware by now) and forget what I was supposed to do. Hah, me and my voyeurism. I guess I kinda… missed the momentum. I'm somewhat losing focus of things these days. I'm starving. Do you have any food?"

"Some of those things are more than I wanted to know. And go back a little. You got jealous of… Wheeler?"

"In my world we share a… special connection. He's my dog."

"Wait." He picked up his lie detector and asked the other to continue after explaining what it was.

The crazy Kaiba pouted. "Oh, you're no fun. Fine. He's not my dog. But he used to be. We had a bet, winner takes all. He got my empire, my employees and well, me. As a dog. And by that, I mean sex slave. Normally I wouldn't mind anything that involves him, me and sex—"

"Again, too much information."

"…but the problem is that the dirty mutt cheated, and I don't admit cheaters. And I couldn't prove it. So the tables turned. I really am hungry."

"That's rough, buddy. And how did you even come up with this dimension crossing machine or whatever you call it?"

"There wasn't anyone that could help me with my predicaments in my world. After I thought long about it, I realised my only chance was to find someone as clever as me to help me. Since there is no such being, it was either try to find a parallel dimension or clone myself. Guess which of these was easier? And here's why you wouldn't be able to make one of these." He pointed to the machine. "Back in my world, there was a rare book written by a man named Adam Rooney. It told of different worlds and means to get to them, but it was so ridiculous that it was classified as fiction. It had some highly offensive stuff in it about most religions, so people burnt it by the dozens.

"I had nothing to lose, so I went after it, and after a long time, I managed to find what is probably the last copy. I tried everything in it. And after having shit blowing up in my face for about 80 times, here I am. And to make matters more dramatic, the last explosion burned up most of the book. I did save a few pages, but they're probably useless." He showed him the wrinkled and dirty pages he got from a pocket.

Kaiba took a quick look at them and set them aside. "Interesting. And what would stop me from trying it as well whenever I came across this book? And believe me, I would have."

"Simple. In your world, he died before writing the book. I checked."

"Hn. Okay. Whatever, I don't see why I should help you."

"C'mon, he needs to be dethroned! He doesn't deserve to be the Master."

"Speaking of which, what's with this 'Master' thing?"

"To put it simply, it's the title given to whoever controls the empire. It was my title, since I created it, and it was my empire."

"Empire of what?"

"Oh, didn't I say it? Cards."

So we really are alike? "Your empire of… Duel Monsters?"

"Duel Monsters? What are you talking about? The whole world knows the Kaiba name is associated with the best game of all times: Poker."

TBC

Confused yet?

Krazy!Kaiba will be part of the story, and we shall call him something else to avoid confusion. You'll see what next chapter. The way he acts and talks has absolutely nothing to do with the actual Kaiba. Just think of him as a different character altogether, or you'll just drown in the OOCness. It's kind of like… well, if Kaiba cloned himself, the clone would most likely behave nothing like him, seeing as he didn't live his life and didn't have the same experiences. Like so, Krazy!Kaiba lived in a different world; the only things he has that are like Kaiba's are his face and name. Aaand… whichever other characters from that world that decide to show their faces in this humble little story can be treated like that as well. Thank you for your time. Have a good night.