If your car breaks down a lot, you should date your mechanic! (Kamui x Reader)

3. Fixing

Summary: Reader gets to know better the strange Commander of the 7th Harusame's squad.

A/N: Here's the third chapter. My target was to try and create a somehow unspoken/between-the-lines chemistry between the two of them. Before the final Gintoki vs Kamui fight it would have been kinda impossible, but the chapter about Kagura's family's past were a total enlightment, so thanks to Sorachi.

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You honestly didn't know what to think of the situation you found yourself in. You imagined the hot (but kind of scary) Commander growing tired of your robots after the first two or three times and either killing you – which was a rather inconvenient outcome – or simply not visiting your laboratory anymore – which, for some reason, still made you kind of upset. Actually, the latter resolution was also what your colleagues hoped, because every time the Commander barged into your office you could clearly feel the atmosphere tense up. Well, to tell the truth, you were pretty scared too, especially the first time.

Kamui – you heard his Vice Commander call him with that name from time to time – didn't say much; he just asked you where the robots were and promptly went to that room. Abuto was there too and he just sat on one of the free chairs in the office and mumbled something you weren't able to hear, but it was clear as day that the whole situation was quite boring for him. After what it seemed like half an hour the younger man came back, your robots completely destroyed. Then his deep blue eyes stared intensely into yours and, after saying something along the lines of 'so you really made them stronger', he left your lab with his companion without saying anything more.

The following visits went exactly like the first and you just deduced that he was satisfied with the improvements you made to his 'enemies'. After some time, you didn't mind him visiting at all, mostly because, thanks to him, you were able to make your robots improve at an alarming speed.

At his tenth visit he just came alone, justifying the absence of Abuto saying that his Vice Commander didn't want to babysit him anymore. The fact that Abuto wasn't there made you a little worried – you suspected that he was accompanying Kamui because if he destroyed your lab, which was an important asset and source of weapons to the Harusame, the duty of sweet-talking the Elders into forgiving his squad would have fallen to him – but, on the other hand, that meant that the Commander really just wanted to spar with your robots and not kill everyone in the office – even though you were the only one in the room to welcome him after the first visits, since the others were magically super busy every time the two pirates came to visit. After hearing the last of your weapons collapse to the ground under the hot (and not so scary anymore) Commander's hits, you went inside the room along with your tools in order to bring your metallic friends back to life. While checking the last data your robot was able to record, you heard some footsteps behind you.

"How about making this room like the Hyperbolic Time Chamber*? That would be super awesome!"

You didn't realize Kamui was still there, thus making a little jump to your left in surprise, disconnecting your computer from the core of the robot and overcharging its main circuit in the process. That caused an electric shock from its system and a groan of defeat from your lungs. Because of that mistake you had to rebuild the main circuit from square one, meaning you were going to stay up late for many nights.

"So? Can you do it?"

Kamui, unaffected by the incident – probably not even realizing what was happening –, pressed you again with his question.

"Uh..." you tried to form a sentence while still thinking about the damage you provoked earlier "N-No, it's not possibile. I can repair these robots because I change the parts that are not working anymore but I can't control time."