Sixfold Adventures: A Collection of One-Shots

Steampunk!Brothers and Steampunk!Reader

Requested by Melabi_Fork.

Roles I'm working with (brothers are not related):

Osomatsu: A male who's on the run after being charged with a string of murders. He's able to blend into society, but tends to get carried away and blows his cover often. Osomatsu is actively using Ichimatsu as a mechanic (after hours) and likes to mess around with Todomatsu by leaving false clues of his whereabouts.

Karamatsu: A bounty hunter who's been put on the job to kill Osomatsu. Sees that the contact is illegal but can't disobey his boss so he tries his best not to meet Osomatsu on the field. Todomatsu helps him from time to time with smaller contracts to pay the repair bills on his weapons.

Choromatsu: A simple reporter who dreams of making a big-time headline, he is friends with (and employs the skills of) Ichimatsu. His current article is following the curtails of the police and chasing down the criminal mastermind that leaves a calling card at the recent string of murders.

Ichimatsu: While quite skilled in engineering and mechanical work, Ichimatsu tends to leave his workshop from time to time to accompany some of his clients and ensure that their equipment doesn't break down. He tends to keep to himself (unless on a job), and stays away from people he doesn't really know.

Jyushimatsu: A rogue scientist that lets his experiments run wild more often than he'll admit, Jyushimatsu is someone that goes out onto the field to let his projects and experiments go free. While most of them end up falling apart before they can get out of hand, he has been detained a few times by Todomatsu and reprimanded for the property damage sustained.

Todomatsu: With his hands constantly busy with sightings and reports of one of the more feared criminals running loose in his city, Todomatsu employs bounty hunters to track down and take care of the smaller fry. There are times when he hires bounty hunters to assist in hunting down the elusive high-profile criminal but he manages to lose the trails so often that there's an ongoing bet with the other detectives to see if Todomatsu can even catch the guy.

Reader: A young woman that is more comfortable in her lab than out in public, (y/n) specializes in creating toxins and poisons (along with their antidotes and counters). She sells her antidotes to those that need it while keeping the toxins in her personal collection, using them in small amounts to grow an immunity against them. (Y/n) isn't a registered bounty hunter, but she will assist the police force and bounty hunters when they go against criminals known to use chemicals in her field of expertise.

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The smoke cut through the filter in her breathing mask, making her choke and wheeze as the dangerous smog filled the compartment. The goggles were tailored to keep anything lighter than water out, ensuring her optical protection, but the breathing mask hadn't been upgraded that far. Any sized particle could pass through the flimsy filter she had been swindled with and it could cost her the job one day, if it wasn't today. The backup she had was supposed to be here, ensuring that the zeppelin wouldn't fall on Akatsuka City should she fail her task...but she had somehow failed spectacularly.

Unable to take any length of breath without coughing or hacking, she knew it was better to keep the face mask on as the smoke from the fire swallowed the compartment completely. The damned crazy criminal had rigged his 'home' to blow should he fear an intruder, a kind of rudimentary system with a high percentage of failure or discharge before it was primed.