Anaya's Creator: Hey, I've finally gotten around to updating this story!

Malik: I didn't turn Rogue into a mind slave did I?

Kaiba: Read the chapter and you'll find out, dumb-ass!

Malik: Ignore the work-aholic. Here are the reviews we got:

Stormtracer:

Thank you, now go read the new Chapter 2 of The Demon Witch I switched many things around.

KrysOfSorrow:

(Authoress plugs her ears and yells back) BECAUSE I FREAKEN' WANTED TOO!!

Daydreamer:

I know I am! I drive my friends insane all the time with my Yu-Gi-Oh evilness!

Kagomewannabe2008:

Sorry, no Yami in this chapter.

Silver Moon Phoenix:

Thanks for the compliment and advice. I don't think I'll be writing yaoi any time soon either. I don't think I'd be good at it.

Anaya's Creator: Thanks for the reviews and definitions!On with the fanfic. I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh, NO SUEING!

Rogue felt a strange sensation overcome her, she had felt the same way when she had fought Karasu. Slowly, a picture formed in her mind. The sun was setting and its colors were painted across the darkening sky. City lights were sparking up as the light faded away. She looked hard and saw the sea in the distance. "I can see... I think, but how?"

"It's my Millennium Rod. I did the same thing while my Yami was in control of my body when you were fighting Karasu," Malik told her. "A small amount of me still existed within my body and I was able to take control of the Millennium Rod at that moment."

Rogue turned and for once she could see him. She ran a hand through his blonde hair. "Thank you," she said softly. Slowly, hesitantly, she leaned forward and closed the gap between their lips. Her hands braced against his chest as his arms wound around her waist.

Malik broke it and said, "I'm ceasing the control over your mind; your world is going to go black again."

"Okay," In her mind, Malik faded away.

"Come, I'll take you home."

"Not yet, let me take you around this place. It's only seven o'clock." She took his hand and began taking him around the mall.

Having gone to that mall several times with Serenity, Mokuba, and occasionally Yugi and Joey for a round at the arcade, Rogue knew the mall very well. The first place she took Malik was the ice-rink.

"Rogue, I have a bit of a confession to make, I don't know how to skate," Malik confessed.

"Don't know how to skate well or how to skate at all?" was her response.

"The second one,"

Rogue merely chuckled and waved a hand in the air as if to brush away that comment. "Don't worry. I'll teach you; it's easy, once you get the hang of it." With Adan guiding her so she didn't run into anyone, she guided Malik to the ice-rink.

"Just hold onto the wall as you skate until you get the hang of it and when you feel steady let go." She instructed. "I'll be holding on to your other hand. If you fall just get back up again, this can be a bit tricky until you get the hang of it. I didn't think they had ice-rinks in Egypt for you to learn on."

It took a while for Malik to get used to being in shoes that had thin inch high blades attached to the bottom, but he adjusted. Soon he was off the wall and skating around the rink with Rogue in tow.

A while later, they took off the ice-skates, traded them for their own shoes, and went to see the rest of the mall. They stopped in the food court for raspberry milk shakes and looked at the animals in the pet store. After spending an hour in the arcade, they headed back to Rogue's house.

Later, Malik and Rogue were back at her house. After a few more hours at home drinking hot chocolate, talking, and playing games, Rogue went up to bed. She sat on her bed with a sigh, in haling the sweet scent of the Rascal LilyRose that was still in bloom. "I think this was the best Christmas I've had so far, don't you Adan?" she asked.

"You think it is so far," said Malik's voice from the direction of the door. He shut it as Adan flew out of the room with a screech and walked to her bed.

Rogue giggled a bit.

"What'd he say?" Malik asked her.

"He said I'll leave you insane kids alone for a while." She heard footsteps approach her and felt the mattress sink a little as Malik sat beside her. Her face turned in his direction and felt a hand caress the side of it. She placed her hand on his own and brushed the out side of it with her thumb then she brought it to her lips and placed a gentle kiss in his palm.

The naiveté of Rogue's gestures nearly drove Malik insane. Sure, she wasn't exactly innocent since had seen the violence of the world and paid for it. But the innocence she had left, as small as it was, was wholly invigorating. He pulled her t-shirt off her right shoulder a bit and eyed the scar at the base of her neck she had from her fight with Karasu. His hand dropped from hers and his arms wrapped around her waist as he began caressing the scar with his lips, occasionally licking across it.

Rogue moaned at his gentle touch and placed her hands on his hard shoulders. She leaned back onto her bed and he crawled on top of her, begging for more. Her hands traveled up his neck to his face and brought him to her lips.

He kissed her deeply, enjoying the sensations of love and lust as they consumed his senses, falling in love with her over and over again. Then his tongue slipped into her mouth slowly, savoring her taste as hers collided with his. His hands ran up and down her sides then came to rest at her upper arms.

Rogue broke away for a moment, face flushed and breathing hard. She felt Malik kiss her on the side of her cheek then trail down to her neck. His hands traveled down to her waist and ran up her sides again, this time touching her bare flesh as his hands lifted up her shirt little by little. "Malik, please, don't," she whispered when his hands got past her stomach.

He halted, stopped kissing her, removed his hands from under her shirt and pulled it back down, then grasped one of her hands in his, linking their fingers together. "Alright, I won't force you into anything you wouldn't be comfortable with." He got off of her and made to leave the room, but Rogue sat up and didn't let go of his hand.

"You don't need to leave."

Malik came back to her and put his other hand on the side of her face. She lay back down and he climbed over her then lay beside her.

As sleep slowly crept over her senses, Rogue snuggled up against Malik and his arms encircled her.

Malik sighed into her hair. His whole body shivered as her breath fell across his chest. As much as he desired her, as much as he desired her sweet caress, he couldn't force her to do anything she wouldn't do willingly; that would be wrong. His grip tightened a little around her, not wanting to lose or let go of her ever. He laid there breathing in her scent as he too fell asleep.

The next morning, Rogue awoke still in Malik's arms. Her hands traveled around his face lightly and she was able to tell that he was still asleep. She felt out his lips and gave him a light swift kiss, then left his warm embrace.

Downstairs she could hear her mother cooking dinner.

"Morning, Mother,"

"Ah, how was last night?" Her tone was somewhat accusing.

"It was fun. He took me to Domino Mall and I took him around."

"No, I mean when he was up in your room with you, all night." Rogue's mother put a cup of tea in front of her daughter.

"Mother, we didn't make love, if that's what you're insinuating." Rogue felt out the cup and took a sip.

"It's exactly what I'm insinuating. Rogue you know better!"

Unbeknownst to the arguing mother and daughter, Malik had awoken and was listening outside the kitchen.

"Mother we didn't. We may have kissed a little... Okay, we kissed a lot, but we didn't go any further."

"Then why was the door to your room closed?"

"Because I normally sleep with the door closed."

Malik stepped into the kitchen, figuring this would be a good time to intervene. "Madam, please heed your daughter. I haven't seen her in six months, but we didn't make love last night. I would never push Rogue to do anything she would be uncomfortable with."

Rogue's mother looked at him skeptically. "Very well," she said, seeing that he was sincere. Out of the corner of her eye she saw Rogue give her a "you're being to overprotective of me again" looks.

Around noon, Malik's flight was going to be leaving soon, and Rogue and her mother were at the airport to see him off.

"You'll e-mail me more, right?" Rogue asked. They were standing in the waiting lobby, arms wrapped around each other. Her mother wasn't with them at the moment, she was in the restroom.

"As often as I can and I'll visit you using the Millennium Rod as well." He broke away from her slightly and ran a hand down the side of her face.

Rogue embraced him again and buried her face in his neck. "I don't want you to go," she murmured. "But you must." She nuzzled her face in his hair and kissed him gently.

Malik lifted her face to his, and then thought of something. "Wait a minute, Rogue, come with me back to Egypt."

"What?" She backed up a bit, gaping in shock.

"Come on, there's still time to buy you a ticket. You'll like Egypt. It's warm and sunny there all year, and it hardly ever rains. Your mother can send you your things later."

Rogue thought for a moment. The idea was so sudden; it was insane, improbable, and yet... so tempting, but she couldn't just leave. It was the middle of the school year, and after this one she still had one more year of high school left. Serenity and everyone else enjoyed her being there and what about her mother... "Malik, the idea sounds wonderful, but..."

"But what?"

"I can't. I'm sorry; I hope you understand."

His face saddened a bit, but he did understand. "I see, you have a life here you don't wish to leave just yet. That was a little rash of me to come up with." He handled her chin in his hand then kissed her passionately.

The announcer sounded, saying that the flight to Cairo, Egypt was beginning to board, so the two broke apart and Rogue's mother returned from the restroom.

Malik turned to Rogue's mother and shook her hand, "Merry Christmas to you both, and a happy New Year," he said. "And I give you my word Mrs. K no harm will come to Rogue while she is with me." He pecked Rogue on the cheek.

"Come back soon," Rogue begged.

"As soon as I can,"

"Have a good trip," Rogue's mother said.

Malik nodded to her and left to board his flight.

"He's a very kind and considerate boy, isn't he, Rogue?" her mother asked.

"When he feels like it." And with that the two of them left the airport.

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A week later school had resumed.

"How was the rest of your Christmas, Rogue?" Serenity asked her.

"It was pretty good." A small blush crept across her face as she spoke.

Serenity giggled, "Seems like it was more than just 'pretty good'. Tell me did anything happen that you aren't telling me?"

"Don't count on me telling you."

"Please Rogue,"

"Nope,"

Anaya's Creator: That's the chapter. Review please!