Glow

Chapter Five: Unreadable

"Yes.. I'm a little stressed. I can't tell you the exact details... sorry. " Near and Mello nodded, looking solemn as Ryuzaki spoke to them. He had carefully wrapped a bandage around his left arm that morning. He just used a burnt hand as his excuse. It was partly true, at least.
"I'm gonna go beat the shit out of him." Mello suddenly growled, turning around. Near sighed as Mello started to storm off in the opposite direction. Ryuzaki tilted his head slightly.
"Well, we need to deal with Mello.. maybe I can... sensibly... talk to Light. Come on." Near sighed again and started to jog after his blond friend, and Ryuzaki followed soon after.
They finally caught up to him, but only after Mello had taken a hold of Light's collar and pushed him to the ground.
"Yagami! How could you even think of hurting my friend?! How dare you, you fucking idiot?!" Misa and her two sidekicks squeaked as Light closed his eyes.
"Mello!" Near shouted as him and Ryuzaki rushed forward and pulled him off, holding him back by the arms as he struggled.
Light slowly got up and stumbled, brushing himself off. His eyes met Ryuzaki's in what looked like a hopeful glance for just a split second, then he broke eye contact, looking to the side. Ryuzaki let out a breath he noticed he was holding. Misa stepped in front of Light, almost standing on top of him. He didn't look comfortable as Misa frowned and glared daggers at the others.
"How dare you hurt my precious Light-kun!? Idiot Ryuzaki! It's all your fault that you ...glowed.. with Light...! He never asked for it, but you had to ruin it all by being there, and being higher up in classes in school! He's smarter than you, he deserves it more! You're just sucking up to the teachers in your free time to get better grades, aren't you?! Cheater!" Misa went into full rage mode, throwing insults and accusations at Ryuzaki, completely ignoring or even not noticing Mello and Near, who were getting angrier by the second as Ryuzaki stood there in silence, looking down.
"Misa, why don't you just shut up." Near interrupted her sentence, looking up with piercing eyes. Misa made a disapproving and surprised sound. "It wasn't anyone's fault that... anything happened between them. Why don't you just leave him alone?"
"Yeah. I don't need to hear a girl like you bitch like that to my friend. Near, let's get outta here." Mello growled and wrenched out of their grip, and grabbed their arms in turn. He dragged Near and Ryuzaki away.

Light could only see Ryuzaki's unreadable expression.