[Malik had spent this time doing menial things around the apartment, but during the last hour or so he'd actually begun to nod off, the Millennium Rod grasped tightly in his hand when he finally submitted to a boredom-induced sleep.

When Bakura was hurt he was jolted awake, his soul fragment from within the Ring alerting him to the injury. Mere moments later Malik sits up, bleary eyed, but with a vicious grin suddenly pulling at his lips.

It took him long enough.]