Anaya's Creator: Hi people, this update is before I got 8 reviews, but who cares.Guess what my Geometry teacher did yesterday...

Malik: What?

Anaya's Creator: On Tuesday he said there would be a "pop quiz" on proofs the next day, so that night and morning I studied like it was the end of the world 'cause I'm no good at proofs...

Mokuba: Then what?

Anaya's Creator: I arrived to class, really nervous because everyone I had talked to said the test was really hard, and he acts like he's passing put a test and when I get it: it's just the normal worksheets. He had been messing with our poor freshman brains!

Malik: The B#

Anaya's Creator: (Hits Malik with a heavy book) Don't say that about my Geo. Teacher! Actually it was pretty funny, and then we had to carry on the lie to the next period class. It was fun!

Kaiba: I will never understand your sense of humor.Here are some reviews:

Daydreamer:

I'm glad you think that. And Rogue got better scores than Kaiba because she's simply smarter than him. She took the test even though she was blind, just in a different way than everyone else, thus her intellect excelled over his.

Stormtracer:

Thanks for finally reviewing; I'm glad you think this is going well.

KrysofSorrow:

I'm glad you liked it that much.

Anaya's Creator: Ido not own Yu-Gi-Oh, plain and simple.

The next morning, before she left to go with Yoko to see more of the Battle City Finals, she got a phone call from Mokuba. He was inviting her and her brother to come aboard Kaiba Craft 3 to watch the Battle City finals with him. The two siblings accepted and told their mother what was going on. She gave the okay and they set off to enjoy the rest of the day, not knowing what would be thrown at them.

Yoko and Rogue were checking out the duels again, but they kept sensing a familiar dark aura. Finally Yoko pulled Rogue into an ally. "Rogue when I tell you so run away as fast as you can make your legs move," he told her.

"Why?"

"Karasu's here."

"How very perceptive of you, Yoko," said an ominous voice from amongst the shadows. Yoko immediately pulled himself in front of his sister, in an attempt to block her from view.

Slowly, as if forming from the shadows itself, a figure appeared. It was Karasu, giant, sinister, and bloodthirsty. He was tall, his thin frame clad all in black, with night-sky-without-stars black hair, there was a grey mask covering his nose and mouth and what could be seen of his skin was pale, as if he had never seen daylight.

"What do you want with my sister Karasu?" Yoko demanded. "Why do you thirst for her life?"

Karasu laughed cruelly. "Heh, heh, heh, heh, heh...Yoko, you sentimental fool, it's not her specifically that I want, it's the powers her body contains."

"What do you mean?"

Karasu laughed again, this time more maliciously. "Yoko, are you blind? Your sister is the reincarnation of one of the most powerful mages that ever walked this earth. What demon wouldn't desire that kind of power?"

He means Akina, Yoko thought. "I won't let you!"

"We'll see about that..." and without warning Karasu charged at them.

Yoko threw his arm back. "Run, Rogue, run!" he told her, and she ran.

Seeing her retreat, Karasu created a sort of monster out of nothing and the thing followed her.

Yoko tried to kill it as it ran past him, but Karasu knocked him into the wall at the last second. "I am your opponent; you can search for your sister's heartless carcass (1) in your afterlife."

Malik Ishtar was roaring through Battle City on his motorbike. He had just made his deal with Yami Bakura and was on his way to the pier where his Rare Hunters were keeping Mokuba, Tea, and Joey captive. Then out of nowhere a girl went running in front of his bike, which he stopped with a loud squeak!

"Watch where you're going, idiot! You nearly ran me over," the girl yelled. She slammed her foot against the front of his bike and ran off.

As the girl ran off he saw her green hair fly behind her. That girl, he thought. Was it Rogue? No matter, I have business to attend to first, and then I can look for her, and with that he sped off.

Rogue had been running for so long that a stitch was beginning to form in her side, but she had to keep running. As she ran, Karasu's voice echoed in her mind. "Run, run, run as fast as you can, little incarnate. You're only wasting your precious energy and putting off the inevitable." The haunting voice distracted her so much that she didn't hear Adan trying to warn her and a moment later she slammed into a wall.

"No," she moaned as she picked herself off the ground, "A dead end."

"Looks like you've run out of options, little Rogue," Karasu's voice sounded once more.

"Not quite," Rogue chanted the spell that had untransformed her walking stick backwards and it changed back into a jewel. After putting that around her neck, she drew out the sword that was hidden under her sweater. "Even if I can't see what I'm fighting, I'm not going down without one." She turned around and faced the way she had come, ready to fight whatever she heard following her.

There was the sound of soft pounding of feet hitting the ground. A low snarl resonated around the narrow ally as whatever had followed her turned into the ally way and crept toward her. It was a sickly-green disfigured dog with yellow eyes. Its skin seemed to be dripping off the matter that made up its horrendous body as it approached her. As it stared at Rogue, it could practically hear her stomach churn in disgust at the sound of the soft plip of what ever made up its body dripped onto the ground. Then it let out a loud growl and launched itself at her.

Adan screeched as the dog-monster hurled towards them. Rogue swung her sword, but sliced nothing but air. She panicked for half a millisecond the jumped. As she landed there was the sickening crunch as the dog hit the wall behind her. Not taking any chances, Rogue used her powers to levitate herself out of the ally and continued running on the rooftops with Adan screeching about when to jump and where to dodge. And Just as she feared, after a few minutes of running she could hear the dog come after her once more.

Meanwhile, Yoko was still fighting Karasu; then he felt something slide down his throat. For a moment he and Karasu ceased their combat.

"There is no longer any need for me to fight you. That object you swallowed is poison that kills slowly, destroying you from the inside out. You will die by tonight for there is no cure. Of course, I could just kill you now, but what fun would that be?" Then he disappeared into the darkness once again.

Yoko slammed himself against the wall for support. His breath was coming in many short gasps. He wasn't bleeding much, but he could feel the poison begin to take effect on his body. Please forgive me, Sister, he said.

Also meanwhile, Malik was in the middle of using his Millennium Rod to control Wheeler, and he was losing his grip fast. Suddenly he felt Joey break away from his power permanently.

"No! Yugi was right," he said. "Wheeler's will was too powerful to overcome." He felt his power slipping away from Wheeler and back at his boat, the power-surge threw him backwards against the wall. He pounded his fist against it in his fury. If I could have had Wheeler under my control for just a second longer, I would have won, he thought irritably.

Suddenly there was a loud CRASH! Abruptly, he stood up to see what had caused it. He got off his boat and stared around the storehouse that his boat was contained in. There was a large hole in the middle of one of the walls. On the cement floor near the hole was an ugly... was that supposed to be some sort of dog... on top of a girl with green hair who was holding onto the dogs jaws with both hands trying to keep it from biting her. Without stopping to think he said, "Rogue?"

"Sorry, you'll just have to wait a moment, person. I'm a little preoccupied at the moment." She let go of the creature's mouth with one of her hands and gave it a punch on the side of the face. She felt the creature roll off of her as her fist made contact and as it rolled away she got onto her knees, feeling around for her sword, but couldn't find it any where near her.

Malik took a quick look around; Rogue's sword was laying about ten paces from her and the creature was preparing to attack her again. As the creature began to charge, he did something really brave and really stupid; he took the knife out of the Millennium Rod and threw it at the rampaging creature.

A loud splat sounded as the creature fell apart, splattering Rogue with guppy thick muck.

"Crap, what is that stuff?" Malik asked as he walked towards her to pick up his knife and help her out.

"A mixture of ectoplasm, blood, and wax," Rogue explained as she picked herself off the ground. "Pardon me for asking, but I think I know you. What's your name? Your voice sounds so familiar."

Malik felt his jaw drop. She didn't remember him, okay she remembered his voice, but she didn't remember who it belonged to. "I'm Malik Ishtar." (He had given her his full name before he had returned her to her family.)

"Oh Malik, it's so good to hear from you!" she exclaimed extending her hand, which he shook.

"Come with me," he told her. "You can get cleaned up and we can talk."

"I'd like that." A small smile formed on her face.

At sight of this Malik blushed then put an arm around her and led her onto his boat.

A while later, after she had taken a shower, Rogue was in one of the rooms trying to wash the muck off her clothes. She was now simply wearing the t-shirt she had been wearing previously under her sweater and a towel around her waist.

Adan gave out a screech, letting her know someone had entered the room.

(A/N: WARNING: Beginning of sappy stuff, fluff, or what ever you want to call it.)

"Malik?" she asked.

"You guessed right," he told her, putting a hand on her shoulder.

Rogue ceased washing her clothes and dried her hands on the towel around her waist. Just as she did she felt an arm encircle her waist and the one on her shoulder traveled to her jaw, and her face was pressed against Malik's. She gasped slightly in surprise.

Malik chuckled softly at the feeling of her breath against his cheek. "No one has ever made me feel like this the way you do," he purred.

"Malik, you're scaring me..." she muttered timidly.

"Don't be afraid," then he pressed his lips gently against hers.

His kiss was so mellow and undemanding, Rogue felt herself weakening to his embrace and returning his kiss lovingly. Her hands went up into his hair and wound her fingers in it as the hand on her neck did as well.

The thought of you has been haunting me ever since we first kissed, my love. There hasn't been one day where I haven't thought of you, he told her through telepathy (2).

You've been on my mind too. When you told me you were coming to Domino, I could hardly stand the wait to be with you once more.

I need you with me, Rogue. I love you.

And I you, Malik.

Finally, regretfully, the kiss was broken. Malik released her, then took her hands from his hair and held them in his. "There is still so much I need to tell you," he told her sadly.

"Why are you sad, Malik?"

"I don't think you'll continue to love me after I tell you."

"That I doubt."

"Just let me explain and please don't interrupt me until I'm finished."

"Okay."

In case you've never read Inu-Yasha, the way one demon gets the power from another being is by eating its heart. Gross, eh?

I taking this from when Bakura was dueling Yami in the Battle City finals, Malik would communicate with Bakura and if he was saying all that stuff aloud everyone would have gotten suspicious of "Namu" a lot sooner. Unless, they're all dumber than they look.

Malik: Yey! My part got bigger!

Anaya's Creator: Told you so.

Mokuba and Kaiba: We weren't in this one?

Anaya's Creator: You're both in the next one. Review people! Ausfetersehen!