Compensation

Night quickly disappeared without anyone noticing, and the sky slowly brightened once more. Several birds were chirping in the air, seemingly welcoming the arrival of a new day.

It's early morning, the temperature is a bit low, and every now and then a gentle breeze blows by, which can quickly wake you up from your sleep.

"Ah! Wow!"

Xuan Ye opened his eyes. Since he had just opened them, the world he saw was still a little blurry. He rubbed his eyes with his right hand and felt much better.

"I slept quite well last night. No wild animals suddenly appeared in the forest. Everything felt fine."

I stood up and moved around a bit to warm up my body and get some exercise.

"I have a feeling that I'm about to break through recently. My chakra seems to have reached a limit. It won't be long before my chakra increases a lot, and I should be able to reach the level of Chunin."

Xuan Ye stood there, thinking for a while, and his mood gradually improved.

"It feels really good to be able to break through my chakra barrier. Once my chakra reaches the Chunin level, my combat power should increase significantly, at least three times stronger than it is now."

Xuan Ye lowered his head and thought silently for a while.

Afterwards, I wandered around the area for a while, looking for a pool of water where I could wash myself.

After searching for a while, we found a stream not far from here. It was very clean and clear, and we could see the bottom.

"Hey! That's it."

Xuan Ye narrowed his eyes and suddenly noticed ripples in the water. He then carefully searched for the source of the ripples.

"There are fish in this stream, in this very stream."

Xuan Ye stared wide-eyed at the black fish swimming in the stream for a while, somewhat dazed.

"Haha! Looks like I'm actually pretty lucky!"

Looking at the fish that were somewhat dark, Xuan Ye smiled and immediately took off his shoes and jumped into the stream to catch fish.

After fighting the fish for about ten minutes, he finally returned to the shore. At this time, Xuan Ye had ten black fish in his hands. These fish were not small, about the size of two adult palms.

"I'll eat five, and the other five will be for my older sister and her little follower, and for Little White. That's a good plan."

I went back to where I had been sleeping, but I didn't get too close to them. I kept a distance, since we had to grill the fish over a fire to make smoke, so I had to keep my distance to avoid bothering them.

He randomly found a bunch of broken branches in the woods, built a makeshift frame, cleaned the fish, and then used chakra to release flames to grill it.

"Sizzle! Sizzle! Sizzle!"

Soon, almost all ten fish were cooked through. Xuan Ye looked at the golden-brown, fragrant fish and couldn't help but swallow.

Just as Xuan Ye picked up a wooden stick with a fish skewer on it, a voice suddenly came from beside him, "Master, Master, Little White wants to eat too, Little White wants to eat too."

Xuan Ye then turned his head and looked at the White Tiger standing beside him with its wide, watery eyes, and gave it two fish.

"Delicious! Delicious! It's a pity I didn't buy any seasonings when I was in town, otherwise, the fish might have tasted even better."

"It seems like we don't have enough to eat! Let's eat four more, and leave two for them. Anyway, women can't eat that much, two should be enough."

Xuan Ye thought to himself happily, then stretched out his right hand and reached out to grab the stick, but couldn't find it.

"Wait a minute! There were three sticks with fish on them, weren't there? How come I haven't caught any?" Xuan Ye wondered.

So he raised his head and looked at the simple shelf in front of him, but it was empty; he didn't see a single fish.

"Holy crap! What's going on? Why are all my fish gone?"

Xuan Ye was immediately stunned; the sudden disappearance of the fish was quite a blow to him.

"I finally caught ten fish this morning, but I only ate two, Little White ate two, and the rest have disappeared?"

Xuan Ye's eyes showed some disappointment as he looked down at the flat land.

Suddenly, the sound of eating reached Xuan Ye's ears.

In an instant, Xuan Ye raised his head and looked in the direction from which the sound came.

At that moment, Tsunade and Shizune were standing there, but none of that mattered. What mattered was that they were holding the fish they had painstakingly cooked, and Tsunade was holding four of them.

Tsunade noticed Xuan Ye's gaze, smiled slightly at Xuan Ye, and then focused on eating the grilled fish in her hand.

After finishing his meal, he stretched and said, "Wow! Xiao Ye, the fish you grilled tasted pretty good! I really enjoyed it."

"You're comfortable now, but I've lost all my fish, and I'm not comfortable anymore."

Xuan Ye looked at her with a resentful gaze, saying nothing, just staring at her.

"Oh dear! Don't be so stingy! It's just that I ate a few of your fish, isn't it? Alright, alright, let me give you something to make up for it."

"Apologize?"

Upon hearing this word, Xuan Ye's eyes lit up immediately, because he knew very well how strong this older sister was, so the things she brought out should not be too bad either.

Tsunade slowly walked towards him, and suddenly a dry biscuit appeared in her hand. She had bought the biscuit in that town yesterday. One tael of silver could buy about ten of them, and each one was about the size of a palm.

Tsunade handed him the biscuit, and he naturally took it and ate it without any further action.

"Smack! Smack! It tastes sweet, but it's a bit dry. It's barely edible."

After finishing the cookie in his hand, Xuan Ye looked at Tsunade standing in front of him again. "What about compensation? Didn't you say there would be compensation?"

She picked the food residue off her teeth with her fingers, then looked at him, her eyes still shining.

Seeing this, Tsunade looked at Xuan Ye with a puzzled expression, "Haven't you already received the compensation?"

Upon hearing this, Xuan Ye felt a chill run down his spine, as if something bad was about to happen.

"The compensation you're talking about... it can't be... it can't be that broken cookie, can it?"

Xuan Ye looked at Tsunade with a tense expression, as if he wanted to get a negative answer from her.

"Yes! It's that cookie. I felt a little bad because I ate the fish you baked this morning, so I gave you a cookie. Isn't that right?"

Tsunade smiled and looked at Xuan Ye with an innocent expression.