While Yuta standing outside the academy after classes is over, he waits for Itachi to show up. While he waits, he recalls his past years.

After Yuta's last fight with Itachi, he spent two and a half years in the time loop, studying, training his 3 basic jutsu, improving his sensory technique and developing his special fuinjutsu style.

All that time Yuta's spiritual energy was growing fast, maybe even a little too fast, but it's not that Yuta will complain about it. Yuta's spiritual energy, as he estimates it, on the level of low-level Chunin right now, or maybe even mid-level, there is no easy way to gauge it.

'I was training with chakra control exercises and sensory technique for more than a year before the academy, and then I was training at the academy for year and a half. But the most gains in my spiritual energy I got in the two and a half years in the time loop.'

'I can't tell for sure if this amount of growth with that amount of time and efforts is normal or not. My overall talent should be average, not bad and not good, juts normal, but I doubt that someone else besides me can accomplish this amount of growth in spiritual energy in such short amount of time, by just training and with just a normal talent.'

'My Time control ability that was fused in to my soul may have something to do with that, but I can't be sure of it yet. But it's possible, after all the foundation of the spiritual energy is soul, and if my chosen ability improved it somehow, then it's possible that my spiritual energy growth is somewhat boosted.'

After thinking about spiritual energy, Yuta recalled his jutsu training.

'Kawarimi jutsu is very useful in combat, it allows not only to avoid attacks, it's also allows to make unexpected moves and surprise the enemy.'

'Henge is most underrated jutsu ever, with high mastery it allows to transform into someone else, disguising even smell, or in to small unanimated objects like kunai, or even transform in to a bird and fly in the sky.'

'Well, idea of flying in the form of a bird is cool, but trained shinobi runs faster on ground then bird can fly anyway, and getting used to the bird form is hard, maybe because of that no one uses it this way. Maintaining Henge jutsu during the flight is also draining on chakra, so even while I wanted to master this trick, I postponed in for later.'

'The combination of the 3 basic jutsu that I developed is good, but if the enemy knows about it, he can avoid it easily. Also something like that will not work against high-level Chunins and Jonins.'

'I hope I can learn something from Itachi before the graduation though.'

Then Yuta recalled his progress with sensory technique.

'When I concentrate, I can sense chakra in the 100m radius now, and it subtle enough so only other skilled sensors can detect me using it. And I also developed a passive sense for chakra and can vaguely sense it in the small radius of 10m, but I can't gauge the chakra amounts that way, but still it's a great ability to have.'

'The last thing but most important one – is fuinjutsu. I completed my own special style in fuinjutsu, and redesigned all available seals from the library in to my own style.'

'It consists of two parts. The first part is the 'language' and rules that is used in the seal inscribed, and I made this part simple, logical, and easy to read and improve. Normally it would be a bad design for the fuinjutsu style, bat there is the second part that fixes this problem.'

'The second part is Encryption seal that I developed especially for that. It needs to be inscribed around the original seal, and when it activates, it changes the structure of the original seal completely, making it virtually unreadable. With that no one will be able to hack it, at least in theory.'

'The encrypted original seal will look like a mess of lines and cryptic unreadable symbols, and making the heads or tails out of it will be almost impossible. And the best part of it – the seal will work just fine.'

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'This Encryption seal of mine is unable to modify any other seal that is inscribed with any other style than mine though. The both parts of the style, the original seals and the Encryption seal only worked together, and they formed the style.'

'It was hard to find the right way to implement this idea, it took a multiple years of efforts, but as soon as I found some working ways to do it, from that point it was just a matter of time to complete the style.'

After recollection of the years of studying and training inside time loop, Yuta starts to remember his year of physical training.

'After I was done with my training in the time loop, I returned to the point when I joined the academy and started to train my physical body with maximum intensity I could manage.'

'My physical strength started to grow fast, and after four months I created fuinjutsu seals that added weights to my training to further increase the intensity.'

'It's fascinating to me how much the body of the shinobi can improve. I already can be considered as the super-human in my previous world!'

'When taijutsu sparring's started I was able to not get beaten by Uchiha and Hyuga guys. Well, they was still faster and stronger than me, by I was able to hold on, thanks to my experience of fighting them, and thanks to the shortened gap between us then in the previous timeline.'

'Well, that performance of mine changed something in this timeline, those guys started to train much more after that. And because of that I was unable to surpass them in taijutsu, and my physical strength despite my constant efforts is not growing faster than theirs. I'm sure that I train much more intensive than them, but there is the talent gap for you I suppose.'

'Either way it's already achievement that I can keep up with them, and I even scored the first place at the end of the year in taijutsu.'

'Right now, my physical energy and strength is at the level of top-level Genin I guess. I assume that after another year of intense training it might raise to the level of low-Chunin, and after getting some experience on missions it will further improve.'

'The other thing that starts bugging me is why most of my classmates spend so little time training? Only some of the clan kids is training hard, but others from what I can judge from taijutsu classes, is not really training that much.'

'Don't they know that they are the village's solders and will be sent on missions to fight for the village? Most of them talk big, but when time comes, they will turn in to the cannon fodder and probably die early.'

'And this is the top class of the entire year batch? Just a joke! Well, not that it is my problem anyway.'

While Yuta waiting to intercept Itachi he thinks about the Uchiha clan massacre that will happen in the future.

'Hm… Maybe I can influence this entire situation. After all, Itachi and his friend Shisui will play a huge role in this scheme. If I get close to Itachi, maybe I can influence him to take some different approach than killing his whole clan.'

'I can try multiple times, if nothing will work I can just accept it as it is and move on. After all, if Uchiha clan will remain and Itachi will stay in Konoha, it will be beneficial for me, as Itachi's friend and the person that helped him to resolve the issue.'

'I don't really have the solution for that at the time being, but I can figure something later on.'

'For now I need to build the foundation that will help me to influence Itachi to not blindly trust Hiruzen and Danzo and just kill his own clan.'

'But I can't just tell Itachi about the future events to convince him just like that, can I? Or maybe I can… Will Itachi believe me if I tell him about the future? If I tell him about something that only he can know then maybe he will…'

'Itachi's current personality is of someone who likes to talk about things like the purpose of life and the ways to prevent wars and about other abstract things. Maybe he is just the right person to believe in something like that or at least consider it.'

'The problems with this approach are obvious though. I have to convince Itachi to keep it a secret, because the moment that Danzo get to know about my extra knowledge – I will have to flee in to the past and fix things, it's too dangerous to play games with Danzo at this point.'

'The other problem with it is my source of the information. I can't just tell someone the truth about it, I need some convincing lie to cover for it.'

'Well, there is a frog that can see others fate and make prophecies. If I claim that I also can do something like that, thanks to some new Kekkei Genkai for example, how can anyone refute it?'

'There is a lot of crazy stuff going on in this world and no one truly understands how things actually work. There is almost anything is possible!'

'In this crazy world the awakening of some new Kekkei Genkai that allows predicting the future events to some degree is not that impossible, right?'

'But the problem with that is that if Konoha higher-ups get to know about it, the best case scenario for me is that I will be locked down and monitored 24/7. No one will allow the possibility of the important information leakage that I may acquire with this 'prophet' ability of mine.'

'Well, if I fail to convince Itachi to keep it a secret, then I will have to travel back in time and try different approach…'

'Interesting, how things will turn with my little play of the role of the prophet, hehe…'