import java.util.*;
import java.io.*;
class Main {
    public static void main(String[] args) {
        FastScanner sc = new FastScanner();
        int n = sc.nextInt();
        char[][] c = new char[2][n];
        for(int i = 0; i<2; i++) {
            String str = sc.next();
            for(int j = 0; j<n; j++) {
                c[i][j] = str.charAt(j);
            }
        }
        long ans = 0;
        long mod = (long)1e9+7;
        int pre = -1;
        for(int i = 0; i<n; i++) {
            if(c[0][i] == c[1][i]) {
                if(i==0) ans += 3;
                else if(pre == 0) ans *= 2;
                else if(pre == 1) ans *= 1;
                ans = ans%mod;
                // x
                pre = 0;
                //pp(pre);
            }else {
                if(i==0) ans += 6;
                else if(pre == 0) ans *= 2;
                else if(pre == 1) ans *= 3;
                ans = ans%mod;
                // y
                pre = 1;
                i++;
                //pp(pre);
            }
        }
        p(ans);
    }
    public static int gcd(int a, int b) {
        if(a%b==0) return b;
        return gcd(b, a%b);
    }
    public static <T> void p(T element) {
	    System.out.println(element);
    }
    public static <T> void pp(T element) {
	    System.out.print(element);
    }
    public static <T> void pe(T element) {
        System.err.println(element);
    }
    public static int min(int a, int b, int c) {
	int min = Math.min(a,b);
	min = Math.min(min,c);
	return min;
    }
    public static int max(int a, int b,int c) {
	int max= Math.max(a,b);
	max = Math.max(max,c);
        return max;
    }
}
class FastScanner {
    private final InputStream in = System.in;
    private final byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
    private int ptr = 0;
    private int buflen = 0;
    private boolean hasNextByte() {
        if (ptr < buflen) {
            return true;
        } else {
            ptr = 0;
            try {
                buflen = in.read(buffer);
            } catch (IOException e) {
                e.printStackTrace();
            }
            if (buflen <= 0) {
                return false;
            }
        }
        return true;
    }
 
    private int readByte() {
        if (hasNextByte())
            return buffer[ptr++];
        else
            return -1;
    }
 
    private boolean isPrintableChar(int c) {
        return 33 <= c && c <= 126;
    }
 
    public boolean hasNext() {
        while (hasNextByte() && !isPrintableChar(buffer[ptr]))
            ptr++;
        return hasNextByte();
    }
 
    public String next() {
        if (!hasNext())
            throw new NoSuchElementException();
        StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
        int b = readByte();
        while (isPrintableChar(b)) {
            sb.appendCodePoint(b);
            b = readByte();
        }
        return sb.toString();
    }
 
    public long nextLong() {
        if (!hasNext())
            throw new NoSuchElementException();
        long n = 0;
        boolean minus = false;
        int b = readByte();
        if (b == '-') {
            minus = true;
            b = readByte();
        }
        if (b < '0' || '9' < b) {
            throw new NumberFormatException();
        }
        while (true) {
            if ('0' <= b && b <= '9') {
                n *= 10;
                n += b - '0';
            } else if (b == -1 || !isPrintableChar(b)) {
                return minus ? -n : n;
            } else {
                throw new NumberFormatException();
            }
            b = readByte();
        }
    }
 
    public int nextInt() {
        long nl = nextLong();
        if (nl < Integer.MIN_VALUE || nl > Integer.MAX_VALUE)
            throw new NumberFormatException();
        return (int) nl;
    }
 
    public double nextDouble() {
        return Double.parseDouble(next());
    }
}

Measured memory_bytes: 21588