It was early on a Saturday... Sunday, no, Monday. Yeah, Monday. Everything had been really quiet until my alarm went off. It
was one of those unmentionable hours that stopped the night and the afternoon from bumping into each other. I almost went
back to sleep when an EVIL, HORRIBLE, smell reached my nose. It was the smell of burned food!
I immediately jumped out of bed and ran out of the room to investigate. When I got into the upstairs hallway, I immediately
jumped back into the room 'cuz *giggle* I kinda wasn't wearing any pants.
Finally, I entered the kitchen all senses alert. I gasped. The sight was almost unbearable. White Blaze had knocked a pan off the
stove and was sniffing some bacon and eggs on the floor. I almost cried. The poor burned bacon and the poor eggs sitting on
the floor. Oh Agony! What a waste! I pulled myself together and thought. Who would do such an evil thing? I knelt and shoved
White Blaze away from the spoiled food. He growled at me, but I growled back. The tiger took a few steps back. I took a little
taste of the food to see how long it had been since it was burned. Then, my first suspect came in, Sai.

Sai: Uh, Kento, what are you doing on the floor? *cringes* Eyew! Don't eat that!

Kento: *sniffs the bacon* I'm not eating. I'm investigating. I just came down here and found this... this horror! *points at the
floor*

Sai: *frowns* Well, you better clean up your mess before Mia catches you.

Kento: Ahh, but what if it's... your mess! *points his finger and some evil sounding accusatory music plays* It was you, wasn't
it?

Sai: Me? You've gotta be kidding. I would never burn anything. How could you think that way of me?

As Sai stood with his nose up in the air, I seriously thought about Sai's cooking ability. I'd never seen him burn anything, ever,
and his food always tasted good, sumptuous cakes, pies, chicken... still, there was a first time for everything.

Sai: Kento, why are you drooling?

Kento: Uh *wipes his chin with his sleeve* Nothing. No reason. Now, if you're so innocent, where were you on the morning of
October 12?

Sai: Kento, that's today.

Kento: Right, just answer the question.

Sai: Well, for your information, I was outside training with Sage all morning. Humph. *spins on his heel and leaves*

I wanted to believe my best friend so badly, but the bacon and the eggs. No, everyone was a suspect! I began to follow Sai.
Discreetly, of course.

Sai: Kento, quit following me!

Then, I decided I'd just clean up and have something to eat. This detective stuff always makes me hungry. Come to think of it,
everything makes me hungry.
After my little snack, I wandered around the house and into the living room. There was my second suspect on the couch, Mia.
She was working on some kind of puzzle. I forgot the name. I sat down in a chair and puffed on my pipe.

Mia: Kento, when are you going to give that bubble pipe back to Yuli?

Kento: I... um, promised to give it back the next time he comes over. *blushes* So, what're you doing?

Mia: Crossword. It's very difficult.

Kento: But not as difficult as cooking?

Mia: Hunh? What? What are you talking about?

Kento: *bubbles boil over his pipe as he puffs* I'm talking about the terrible thing you did in the kitchen. You know what I
mean. The bacon and the eggs. How could you?

Mia: Kento, I think you have been watching too many episodes of Matlock. I started this crossword about an hour ago. Now,
if you wouldn't mind leaving? These puzzles take quite a bit of concentration.

I watched Mia with her puzzle. Her story seemed steady. She scribbled with her pencil into the little boxes on the page, erased,
then scribbled again. I thought it odd that she had switched from pen to pencil. Over half was in pen. I figured she probably ran
out of ink or the puzzle was way too hard for pen. Then, my mind switched back to my case.

Kento: Mia, do you know where Rowan is?

Ha, I thought. Rowan's a bad cook. Maybe he'd screwed up. He would be a prime suspect.

Mia: I think he's up in his room, but then, I haven't seen him today.

So, I left to find Rowan. White Blaze saw me and decided to follow. As I walked up the stairs puffing on my, no, Yuli's pipe, I
began to feel kinda like that Holmes dude. Then, I looked at White Blaze. Watson! Wait no! Whiteson! I began to feel very
happy with myself. I opened up the door to Rowan's room. White Blaze, no, Whiteson entered first and I followed. Rowan was
asleep on his bed. Or... was he?

Kento: Hey Whiteson! What do you think?

Whiteson: Whuff! *pads over to Rowan and butts him with his head. Rowan doesn't stir*

Kento: Give him another shove, Whiteson. He might be faking.

*Whiteson growls low in his throat and gives the sleeping Rowan another butt with his head. Rowan's mouth drops open and he
begins to snore*

Whiteson: Whuff! *turns to leave room*

Kento: Yeah. That's what I thought. Innocent.

Rowan just had to be innocent. I mean, my taste test of the evidence told me the food had been burned in the past fifteen
minutes. Rowan was sleeping too soundly to have been awake then, but his roommate, Sage was awake. Sai said he was
training with Sage. I rushed out of the house. I don't think Sai could have had enough time to warn Sage of my investigation. I
saw him with his sword practicing moves on the training field. I walked up and decided to be blunt.

Kento: You had breakfast?

Sage: *lowers his sword* What?

Kento: I asked if you had any breakfast?

Sage: Yeah, so, your point? *squints his eyes*

Kento: So, that means you've been in the kitchen at some point. *waves his pipe*

Sage: Well, duh.

Kento: When?

Sage: When what?

Kento: When were you in the kitchen?

Sage: I don't know. Sometime earlier. Sai and I were practicing for a while with staffs. *shrugs*

Kento: What did you have for breakfast?

Sage: Some cereal and an apple. Why?

Kento: Are you sure it wasn't bacon and eggs? *wiggles his eyebrows*

Sage: Bacon and eggs? Kento, you know I'm not partial to bacon. Why this inquistion if I might ask? *frown*

Hmm... I had forgotten that Sage didn't like bacon. Maybe he was innocent, or maybe he was a person who just hated bacon,
so he had a deep urge to burn it. Then, there were the eggs. Sage liked eggs. This was tough.