((I will tell you ahead of time, that this chapter acutally has some minor-ish RokuShi stuff (YAY!!!!!!!!! Sorry, I love the couple XD). But It's not too major..

Sorry for not uploading for a while. Actually, I'm sorry about this chapter in general, it's short, a late upload, and...yeah....

Enjoy~))

DAY 406 ~ Same but Different

(Chapter 19)

It was a couple days before we were back on the Gummi Ship, and those days went by surprisingly fast for not having much to do.

We ended up traveling to Halloween Town. I remembered the last time I'd been there…when I'd still been in my struggle to remember Xion…

Sora, Donald, Goofy, and Naminé's outfits changed to help them blend into that world. Sora's outfit changed to all different shades of black and gray with an orange pumpkin on his head. His eyes gained dark circles around them. Donald was wrapped in bandages, and Goofy had on old raggedy clothes. Naminé's dress remained white, but with an added black material wrapped around it with a pumpkin clip holding it in place. A small black hat and black flowers decorated her hair.

I wondered why it only happened to them, and not any organization members, though they looked dark, already. So maybe you only had to look…dark? Scary? I wasn't sure what the costumes were supposed to be like.

Sora saw Jack Skellington making a stack of Jack-o-lanterns on the side of the road, and decided to say hi.

"Oh, hey, Jack," Sora walked up to him. "How have you been?"

"Sora!" Jack exclaimed. "I haven't seen you in a while!"

"Yeah," Sora laughed.

"Ah well…you're just in time for Halloween!" Jack exclaimed. "It's only a couple days away. We're going to make this year's Halloween the best, yet!"

"What are you gonna do?" Sora asked, not knowing what else to say.

"This year's theme is 'Pumpkin Plague'," Jack gestured to the pumpkins he'd stacked. "The whole town will be decorated with them! Many will even have some 'surprises' inside! On Halloween we'll have a giant pumpkin…it will be great!"

"Do you want some help setting up pumpkins? We could help out, if you need it," Sora offered.

"Sure! That would be wonderful!" Jack told Sora where the pumpkins were and Sora led the way--Jack had left to talk to the Mayor.

For the whole day, everyone was working on putting pumpkins around town to decorate. I started thinking about the conversation Naminé and I had a few days before.

Where was Riku? Was he still back in Twilight Town, or was he somewhere else? Would it really matter to Sora that I'd seen Riku, if I didn't know where he was, then?

I had so much to think about. So many questions. I wondered if Xion was thinking about these things, too.

Sora and his friends decided to sleep on the Gummi Ship for the night--they didn't have a place to stay in Halloween Town--and come back the next morning. It didn't take long for Sora to fall asleep--he was exhausted from carrying pumpkins all day.

Xion and I talked, as usual, when Sora slept.

"So have you thought of whether we should tell Sora about Riku or not?" Xion asked. I guessed she had been thinking about it, like I was.

"No, not yet," I shook my head. "We should probably wait, like Naminé said…" I once again thought of how Naminé looked like Xion. Why did it…bother me so much?

Xion looked back at me. "Are…are you okay?" she asked again. "I know that before you said you were, but…I'm worried about you. You're acting kind of…different."

"I'm just thinking about a lot of things," I replied. It was the truth.

"Like what?"

Like her. "Stuff like…this Riku situation," I lied. But it felt weird to. "And that it's weird being in someone else's mind, and that…you look a lot like Naminé." I stopped for a moment, trying to think of something else to say. "Though I look a lot like Sora, too."

"You look kind of different, to me," Xion said. "At first I did think that you looked almost exactly the same, but…I…changed my mind."

"Why?" I wondered.

"No reason." She kind of just stared at the ground--or whatever the white space below us would be called. I guessed that she didn't want to share the real reason.

"Oh…" I wasn't sure what to say. Xion and Naminé looked the same to me, other than their hair, clothes, and…

Xion was…prettier. I don't know how. But she was.

"I wish I had a heart," I suddenly said.

"I do, too," Xion sighed. "Maybe when this is all over…we can both get hearts."

"I hope so."

I wanted to know what the emotion I was feeling was called.

((I just realized how short this chapter is D:. But I don't have any bonus material written at the moment x.x. I'm really sorry~! BUT, if you want to, I've written a very random-ish 'Valentine's Day Special' that you can find on if you look at the list of stories I've written. I'm very sorry, and I'll try to make sure I have more bonus stuff next time~!!!!))

((I am spazzing myself out because of the RokuShi moment. ROXAS LOVES XION~!!!!!

Sorry, I'm a fangirl, please excuse my fangirl~ing~ness. I still don't know if this is going to turn out to be a RokuShi fanfic or not though...))