Kingdom Hearts: From No One to Someone

Antebellum

You are late my apprentice." Xehanort said simply as he looked up from the book he was reading as Vanitas had entered his study.

While more accurately it was a large cavern that he had converted into a study with chairs, magical lighting, and shelves carved into the rock and lined with books, scrolls, and texts of all kinds. But it was still a study none the less.

"I was recovering from my bout with Roxas and setting up a fight with the weakling and the perfect Unversed for someone of his level." Vanitas said, causing Xehanort to sigh as he marked his page and closed the book.

"Please tell me that you made it so that young Ventus could deal with it getting himself killed." Xehanort sighed out.

He knew of Vanitas's amniousty towards his other half, while he could respect his apprentice's drive to be whole despite it being apart of his plan. But he was displeased with his willingness to kill Ventus. But it was somewhat understandable, even he didn't know what Vanitas truly was despite creating him.

"I did, it is alot weaker then the one I made to test against Roxas. Speaking of which defeated that one while being poisoned and slightly poisoned. Hell, he was even able to clean out a swarm of the more basic Unversed effortlessly." Vanitas said, causing Xehanort to raise an eyebrow in interest.

"Really now, then I take it that he passed your test then?" Xehanort inquired.

If Roxas actually did pass then he needed to know more him in order to decide where he should fit into his plans.

"He did and you want to know what the least interesting thing about him is that his combat style is one that is seeming based solely on fighting Heartless judging by how he found the weaknesses to all of the Unversed and dispatched them so easily." Vanitas said, piquing Xehanort's attention even more.

A style designed only on fighting and dispatching the Heartless effortlessly. Such a style has been lost to the ages, but it could be developed one has trained extensively against all different kinds of Heartless. Such examples include Vanitas and himself as the two of them have fought multitudes of Heartless over the years and recently the Unversed. Of course he had decades of expierence before resorting to fighting actual Heartless and had a decade and a half experience with that along with Vanitas inheriting Ventus's muscle memory, but those were only details.

So to Roxas must've been taining under similar experiences in order to have gained such a style though he did it from scratch.

His respect for the boy's former master rose a little at that.

Still if that was the least interesting thing about him, then what was it that impressed his apprentice so much.

"And pray tell what he did that interests you so much?" Xehanort asked.

"He could manipulate light about as masterfully as what you have described that Eraqus can do and us it a Limit Break." Vanitas said, shocking Xehanort. "Though he doesn't seem to a good grasp of it as using that very light exhausted him and nearly killed him. Hell it exhausted me something fierce, but I still had enough strength to kill him if he wasn't cunning enough to briefly freeze me in place for a passing Terra to ram into me at full speed with his Keyblade Glider. After crashing into quite a few trees I knew that I was in no condition to fight the two of them. So I booked it and then set up the weakling's little surprise while recovering some of my strength before coming right here. And before you ask I made sure not to let it slip about my partnership with you." The masked Keyblade wielder finished.

"Good." Was all Xehanort as he processed what his apprenrice had said.

It seemed that not only was this Xemnas was more knowledgeable then he thought as he was able to find a Limit Break that delt with light something which he could never find any texts of and seemed to have imparted some tactical knowledge onto Roxas.