"Mmm, that's nowhere near enough to fill me up."
Just as Mikoto finished grilling a few more fish, another group of bandits appeared.
"Stop! Hand over your valuables, and we might spare your lives."
A ragged group of bandits rushed out, brandishing machetes at the caravan leader.
Then they swallowed hard and pointed at Uchiha Yin and the others.
"And those grilled fish are ours too!"
Uchiha Yin, Kushina, Mikoto, and Tsunade exchanged glances and burst out laughing.
"Mikoto, how many groups has it been now? I've lost count of how many bandits your cooking has lured in," Kushina said with a laugh.
"They would've come even without my cooking. How can you blame me?" Mikoto said, laughing too.
"Whose turn is it this time?" Tsunade asked, shaking her head with a smile.
Tsunade, Kushina, and Mikoto all looked at Uchiha Yin, who was still eating his grilled fish.
"My turn again already?" Uchiha Yin said, wiping his mouth.
Over the past few days, they had encountered one group of bandits after another. Their initial excitement had given way to mild boredom. The bandits were so weak that fighting them held no appeal.
The bandits didn't recognize Tsunade or the others. Seeing the four of them act as if they weren't there made their blood boil.
Times were chaotic, but bandits knew better than to attack a caravan protected by ninja. Run into one of those, and they could lose their lives, never mind steal anything.
So they had followed this caravan for half a day and found that it didn't seem to have a single ninja guarding it.
To the bandits, the merchants looked like easy prey.
Tsunade, Uchiha Yin, and the others didn't like wearing their Forehead Protectors, so the bandits had mistaken them for ordinary people.
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