FASH: Shinnie The Meanie kindly directed me to a live journal post where a number of ES21 character's names and meanings had been listed, so I decided to do a short continuation so Sena doesn't have to worry about how in different countries his name is a girl's name. I got the characters for Sena's name from wikipedia, so I'm just assuming those are correct.

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Ever since the previous day Sena had been on a mission to find out what his name really meant. (Not that he didn't trust Suzuna, but he trusted his parent's decision making skills a little more.)

And Suzuna's happiness over the subject had bothered him. He'd like to see her retain her grin if she found out her name meant something like warrior or second son in a different language.

Besides, no matter how he looked at it: Kobayakawa Sena must certainly have a different meaning than: 小早川 瀬那.

He'd been worrying over it and vainly trying to find out it's meaning through the use of online name dictionaries, which weren't entirely helpful because his name was rarely listed. He'd almost given up hope when night fell and Hiruma wandered over to him, asking him why the hell he'd been distracted all day.

And then, after explaining the situation, Hiruma of all people had come to his rescue, calmly flipping through his ever-present Devil's Handbook, then pausing and informing Sena of his name's meaning as if he had done this sort of thing a million times before. Which had truthfully been a little creepy, but Hiruma himself was a varying level of creepy at all times, so he didn't let it bother him.

All that mattered now was tracking Suzuna down and informing her of the name dictionary's omission, which was a thankfully easy task that hardly took five minutes.

"Suzuna, there's something I need to tell you." He stated seriously as soon as she was within hearing range.

She cocked her head to the side curiously. "What is it?"

"Kobayakawa basically means 'little fast river' while Sena means 'rapids'."

His name was so, totally masculine (Even if it was a unisex name, or so Hiruma had told him.) when you ignored it's Greek and Latin meanings to focus on what it meant in it's language of origin. Take that, Suzuna's name dictionary!

"That's... Pretty freakishly accurate actually." Suzuna rubbed at her chin in thought while Sena felt a small amount of triumph that he, like so many other members of his team, had a name that suited him.

"It's almost as if your parents knew exactly what you'd be like when you were older."

"Well, that's just a coincidence, isn't it?"

Because really, how could it not be a coincidence?

"Even when not only your given name, but also your family name, describe you so well?"

"Uh..." Sena rubbed the back of his neck. "Well it's not like my parent's changed their last name just so that my name could altogether mean something like 'fast little river rapids.' I'm sure they still would have called me 'Sena' even if they had a different last name."

Suzuna rose an eyebrow, as if to say: 'they would, really?'

"But don't you think it's strange that so many of our names are so descriptive or gag-like, as if to make it easier to remember who we are, like we were the characters in a manga or something?"

"... I didn't even notice any of our names were descriptive or gag-like until you told me their meaning yesterday, it's a coincidence, co-in-ci-dence."

Suzuna rolled her eyes at Sena's unmindfulness before a thought struck her.

"Or is it... hitsuzen?"

"... What?"

Suzuna excitedly grabbed his hand and began dragging him away. "Let's investigate!"

"Investigate why? Investigate what? And where are you taking me anyways?"

Maybe he should have just kept his discovery to himself.