Bento Bros
Author's Note: Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of Cap Revolution Bottleman DX.
Pairing: Established Cota x Ponta?
Summary:
Imagination can be a terrible tool. Are Coga Cota and Hayari Ponta a thing or aren't they?
Chapter 2: He's My Mom
"Hello! Delicious onigiri to Cota-kun? Aren't you hungry?"
"Wha-huh? Oh. Thanks, Ponta. I was just thinking."
"Anything I can help with?"
"It's what Mitsuya said…"
"About you and me?"
"Are we –?"
"Are you going to let Mitsuya-kun dictate who you should be?"
"Pontaaa…You were the one who encouraged me to try Bottle Battling! Doesn't that make you a hypocrite?"
"Owo! I suppose so!"
"Ponta, should I be worried?"
"You weren't before."
"I get that, but should I be worried?"
"Why don't you leave the worrying to me? I am the parent!" Ponta stretched his arm across the gondola to the other seat to ruffle Cota's hair.
"My dad?" Mitsuya's accusation stuck to Cota like sticky spilled cola.
"Your mom, Cota-kun!" Ponta laughed tenderly. Laughed motherly.
Ponta wasn't wrong. He did do all the things a mom would do: prepare Cota lunch, ensure Cota was always well fed, cheer Cota on at his matches (albeit with pompoms), protect Cota from falling wingsuiters from the sky…
Somebody ought've told Ryo, "No, don't 'take the plunge'!"
Nestea, man! Be glad a single mom can't afford to sue for a company's slogan almost wounding/killing a boy or two!
If Cota believed Mitsuya's opinion, Ponta was his sugar daddy.
If Cota accepted his own position up till now, Ponta was his bro.
If Cota trusted Ponta's off-the-cuff, kinda true joke, Ponta was his mom.
Cota looked up to Ponta, as though he were a parent. But Ponta was also his senior and his friend. The broest of bros.
They were the broest of bros to ever bro, bro!
"You'd tell me if you wanted to be more than friends, wouldn't you, Ponta?"
"If I did want to be more than friends, Cota-kun," Ponta paused, "you wouldn't be asking the question."
The confirmation relaxed Cota.
Mitsuya drank too much Mtn Dew! It was messing up his brain!
Cota and Ponta had a normal relationship. A typical relationship between upper and underclassmen, between bros, and between a "mom" and "son."
"Ponta?"
"All good, Cota-kun?"
"You're World's #1 Okasan!" Cota munched into his mother figure's meal.