I'm not sure how many chapters I'll be doing, but all will turn out for the best I hope. Sorry for the long update wait. I had a lot of tests at school.

While Meg sulked about supposedly poisoning Kinta, Kyu, Ryu, and Kazuma were madly whispering among themselves.

"Hey, she's really sad, isn't she?" Ryu asked worriedly, taking a short glance at the sniffling girl curled up in a ball.

"Well, if you just intoxicated three of your friends and one teacher with your cooking, wouldn't you be sad too?" Kyu asked.

"I don't cook, I get my servants to do it," smirked Kazuma. Ryu shrugged.

"I don't really cook either. Someone else always did it for me before."

"You know, I don't cook either, mom always did it…" Kyu murmured.

Silence…

"So, what do we do?" Ryu asked, gesturing towards Meg. "Shouldn't we, well… cheer her up?"

"Yeah, you can go over there and work your charm," Kazuma snickered as Ryu gave him a confused look. Kyu just sort of… did nothing. Just stood there looking oblivious.

"Charm?" Ryu asked, confused.

"Never mind," Kazuma sighed.

More silence… and then Meg came over.

"H-hi guys…" she sniffled. "I'm really sorry about all this!"

"No, it's okay! We're just fine!" the three answered, though we all know it was a big huge lie. Meg didn't seem to catch that.

"Thanks… I feel like I should treat you guys to lunch or something," she smiled weakly while Kyu, Ryu, and Kazuma's minds went: DANGER ALERT! DANGER ALERT! DANGER ALERT!

"Uh, well, actually, the three of us just had lunch at Kazuma's house, so we're not really hungry," Kyu told her. The other two, catching on, quickly nodded their heads.

"Well… at least come over for ice cream!" Meg asked.

"Is it homemade?" Ryu inquired. Meg shook her head.

"Yup, my mom made it two days ago. She's a really good cook." she clarified, and since the trio didn't actually have lunch, a little something to fill them wouldn't be so bad, right? After all, they can't get sick from some ice cream Meg's mother made two days ago, could they?

"Well, okay…" Kazuma agreed.

Twenty Minutes Later…

"Ta-dah!" Meg announced as she placed a piece of what seemed to be cow manure with a big yellowish glob on top. "Mom's a great cook isn't she? She even let me help her with it!"

Kyu, Kazuma, and Ryu's brain once again flashed: DANGER ALERT! DANGER ALERT! DANGER ALERT!

"H-help?" Kyu stuttered, looking at the… thing in front of him.

"Uh, Meg, I'm not suppose to have anything that contains sugar because my uh… mother said so!" Kazuma explained.

"I'm sorry, but I can't ruin my teeth," Ryu said sadly, well, not really, but you get what I mean.

"And I, uh… just came back from the dentist, so I can't eat anything like that, sorry!"

Meg blinked a few times, and the three were sure she wasn't going to buy the stories they told her, but…

"Well, I understand, but if you guys don't mind, I'll try some!" she smiled happily. Kazuma went for his cell phone, the hospital's number already typed in and waiting to press the button…

Ten Minutes Later…

"Ugh… I think… I think I might have ate something that was bad…" Meg grumbled as she staggered towards the trashcan. Kyu and Ryu exchanged worried glances.

"You think?" Kazuma muttered as he speed-dialed the hospital.

"I'LL GO INVESTIGATE!" Kyu cheered and quickly dashed off as Ryu sighed and ran over to catch a fainted Meg.

A Minute Later…

"Ugh… I really should watch what I'm eating…" Meg sighed as she laid limp from pain on the couch.

"THERE…"

"…are three hints, we know, Kyu, we know," Kazuma told him in a 'you are stupid and I'm trying my best to explain this simple thing to you' tone. Ryu just meekly nodded.

"One is Meg's behavior, two is the smell, and three is the stuff in the trashcan, right?" Ryu 'guessed' as Kyu looked genuinely shocked.

"Wow! I knew you were sharp, Ryu, but wow! That's just amazing how you can just read my mind like that!" Kyu laughed.

"It is, isn't it?" Ryu sighed. Sarcasm intended of course.

"And the culprit is me, as always, right?" Meg graoned.

"Yup!"

Silence…

"Hey, I just realized something…" Kazuma mused. "Meg would've emptied the trashcan, or another of her family would have, right? So Kyu, how did you find the 'remnants'?"

"Easy!" Kyu replied. "I just searched through the bigger trashcan out there! After all, a good detective must know these things!"

Silence…

"Meg, what exactly did you put into the uh… ice cream?" Ryu asked, getting off of the pointless and stupid subject.

"Uh… well, it called for cream, and since I didn't have that, I thought butter would work, and I didn't have any sugar, so I used salt instead. I didn't have any cocoa either, so I thought tealeaves would be okay, and that yellow thing on top was some liquefied butter squash we had last week. Did I do something wrong?"

Silence…

"And your mother was where?" Kazuma asked.

"Oh… the one we made is in the freezer. I thought you guys would liked to have tried mine first…"

"Uh-huh…" the three nodded. Meg decided to stay silent for the sake of her upset stomach.

Why? WHY can't I cook good!