DAY 360 ~ Chase

(Chapter 2)

That day, I had a mission in Twilight Town. Eliminate heartless. Not too hard, right?

That's what I hoped, anyway. An easy mission would be good since I had my mind on other things.

I walked over to the area of town full of stores. So far, though, I didn't see any heartless. I was beginning to wonder where they all were when a few Neoshadows appeared.

It was rare for them to show up in Twilight Town, but I didn't waste time thinking about that. I summoned my keyblade and began to fight.

The strange thing was…I felt more powerful than I had been before. I felt…different. Like I had power that wasn't mine.

But why? How would that be possible?

After the Neoshadows, some Shadow heartless appeared. I started to attack, but they fled.

"Hey!" I exclaimed. "Get back here!"

I ran as fast as I could in pursuit. But they were quick..

Suddenly, I had a sudden sense of Deja'vu. Similar to the sense that I was forgetting something, again.

Then some more images flashed through my mind. I was chasing someone…someone who wore the organization's cloak. Then the person took off their hood…she. It wasa she. I knew this in the memory, but again I couldn't see her face. I just knew. But who was she? Why was I chasing her? Why did she have the same cloak as the members of the organization wore?

More images came, this time not of the chase, but of eating icecream, again. That was when I realized that this was the same person that I had thought of the day before, the one Axel and I had icecream with…a best friend.

I was no longer chasing the Shadows. The images…weakened me. My head pounded again, and I kept trying to remember more.

But as they had the day before, the images left abruptly. The only thing I remembered of them, that time, was the fact that the person Axel and I ate icecream with had our same cloak. I didn't know anything else…but I began to wonder why Axel lied to me. Or did he forget about this person, just like I did?

Once I recovered, I continued with my mission. It was all that I could do.

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That evening, Axel wasn't even at the clock tower. I didn't know where he was, but I ate icecream by myself for the day. It felt so…lonely. Not just because he wasn't there, but because I didn't know if he was being honest with me or not. And that hurt, somehow.

Could a Nobody really feel that kind of pain?