All characters © Amano Akira
Summary: A series of points, secrets, and little things that no one in the Vongola's really stopped to notice over the years. If they had, they'd probably scream.
Enumerated: We are the Mafia
8 different types of smiles you'll see in the mafia
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1. The small, thin-lipped smile of Bianchi's. It's the kind of smile she gives that faintly hints at the kind of woman she'll grow up to be: observant, mature, humored at the sight of youth. It's the smile that appears when watching Hayato, Tsunayoshi, and the rest of them flounder about in their quotidian shenanigans. It's the smile that says boys will always be boys; they are so loud, so immature, and still teenagers despite everything. Bianchi uses this smile a lot, since it's a spectator's smile. She could fight and thoroughly hand their asses to them on a silver food platter, but it's more fun to watch them epically failing at cooking cup noodles than anything.
2. Most people can't help but fall for Tsuna's smile, which is heart-wrenching in how endearing and honest it is. It's open, crinkling up at the eyes, but above all, it's trustful. Sawada Tsunayoshi believes in giving everyone a chance—and although he may not be the smartest, the strongest, nor the most talented, that smile sits there, silently letting you know that everything will be all right. Somehow. Tsuna has used this smile to gather and tame even the most wild of beasts. Especially the ones in his own family.
3. Like Bianchi's, Reborn's smile is also a spectator's smile. He usually pulls down his orange-laced fedora to do it, so that the curling up of his lips is encased in shadow. It's a grin so devilish that women, young or old, instantly fall for. Reborn only smiles this kind of smile, as it is the one that suggests that he's seen it all before, that he's known all along. There is a hint of smugness to this smile, because generally, whatever it is that has caused the smile is usually due to his own influence in one way or another. Manipulating Hibari Kyouya into doing something for the Family, discussing a deal with Shamal, or whacking Tsuna with a sledgehammer; it's always the same smile. Most of the Arcobaleno have similar, owlish smiles because contrary to their appearances, they are a lot older than they look.
4. Rokudo Mukuro smiles quite often. Despite the smirks and leers and snickers, he doesn't have much of a sense of humor (his mirth stems mostly from sadism and schadenfreude, which is generally only amusing in the eyes of the beholder). He smiles broadly, widely, but it is one with fake humor that covers pain, one that doesn't touch his eyes. A smile that is used to hide. With those smiles, well, there is never any real humor attached to them. It's just for show, like his illusions that can be seen but not touched. His charm is like biting into a spoiled cake: all frosting and sweetness, but once your teeth set in you find yourself chewing on maggots and squirming things and something truly nasty.
5. Gokudera tries, he really does. He is stern by nature; a hard worker with no time for frivolities. This molds him into a rigidly, almost unhealthily uptight individual. His smiles wobble just the slightest bit, as if they could topple over any minute. Or crumble into something darker. Gokudera's smiles come off more as grimaces than anything else because he isn't very good at hiding his inner turmoils. In this sense, being the Storm suits him.
6. Hibari only has one smile, a feral grin that is better suited to a creature of a more primal life form that has the capacity of holding only one thought in its tiny brain: kill. It's a humorless, bloodthirsty grin that is frightening because it shows that Hibari truly enjoys fighting. He has known nothing but, and no one has really had the gall to teach him otherwise. His lips pull back over white teeth and red gums so that only the canines show, as if to really make good on his saying to bite you to death.
7. Yamamoto's smile is perhaps more frightening that Hibari's and Mukuro's. Not the wide, sheepish one that he gives when he accidentally hits the ball over the fence and into the teachers' lounging area, but the quieter, Wolf In Sheep's Clothing smile. Yamamoto doesn't smile this one often, but it comes out every now and then when someone has made the mistake of pissing him off, or threatening him. Tsuna doesn't like it at all, when Yamamoto smiles this smile. It tells him that Yamamoto is capable of much more than murder. Tsuna more than dislikes this smile; he hates it. It's lopsided.
8. Joshima Ken doesn't even know he has this smile. If you were to point it out to him he would blink at you and go, "Eh?" It's the smile that slides onto his face when he's imagining what Chrome Dokuro might look like under her Kokuyo uniform. The tongue does not loll out, but rather pushes up against the sides of his mouth, and his lips part slightly. Ken would never share these thoughts aloud, but sometimes Chikusa catches him with that grin and makes assumptions on his own that are more accurate than he thinks. They are teenage boys, after all, and Chrome doesn't have a clue how attractive she is. Ken usually thinks about the panties, but occasionally he'll imagine sticking his hand up her shirt and cupping what is there, and that smile will worm its way out like a sneaky mouse.