So, I desperately wanted to get this out before the manga ended in June and the Arc-v era came to an end.

Perhaps, as a result of that, this is a shorter chapter than what you'd see for most loop stories, but I digress.

This story was heavily inspired by Saphroneth's MLP Loops, Kamen Rider Leonite's Yugioh Infinite Loops, as well as the Infinite Loops originally conceived by Innortal. It will also follow the established rules for stories in the infinite loops project. (details on On the bottom of you need it)

And there may be allusions to Leonite's story, as the tenth chapter is dedicated to Arc-V.

You can expect the official wikia to be updated by the time this is posted.

Oh, and some of these won't be in chronological order.

Enjoy!

1.1

Yuzu's nowhere nearby?" Yuto asked cautiously, glancing around.

"I made sure she wouldn't be anywhere near here, but let's make this quick just in case."

Yuto nodded. Yuzu tended to show up before the set time they fused, no matter what, and then they'd be forced apart and unable to talk again for awhile.

"Alright. Time has been rewinding over and over again, yet recently a lot of things have been different. As if someone else was also remembering everything when time started rewinding and has been altering the course of events... Is it you?

While he had been explaining his suspicions, Yuya's eyes had widened. To Yuto's question, he had immediately answered "Yeah, I've been doing some stuff differently to keep myself amused. So that means...time's resetting for you too?"

Yuto nodded again, grimacing slightly as he internally pondered why this was happening.

Seeing him upset, Yuya said "Well, hey. No matter why this is happening, it's nice to know we won't be going through it alone." He comforted with a smile, putting a hand on Yuto's shoulder.

Yuto gave a small smile back.

It was at that moment that Yuzu ran in, her bracelet immediately glowing a bright pink and Yuto was teleported away. Though they were both so used to it happening at this point, that Yuya just waved, silently promising they'd talk more later.

1.2

Y'know, it's a shame no one else remembers the repeats. Yuto idly commented, watching the duel currently going on through Yuya.

Yeah. It'd be fun to see everyone else's reaction to the name changing ones.

He'd let Declan take the first turn.

"Using the ability of my D/D swirl slime, I will fuse it with D/D Berfomet.

I Fusion Summon!

D/D/D Flame King Genghis!"

One down. Yuya mentally noted.

"I summon the tuner monster, D/D Nighthowl. And with its ability, bring back D/D Berfomet with its attack points lowered to zero.

Now I tune Level 3 D/D Nighthowl with Level 4 D/D Berfomet!

I Synchro Summon!

D/D/D Gust King Alexander!"

One more to go.

"When I summon another D/D/D monster, Flame King Genghis resurrects a D/D monster from my graveyard.

Arise once again D/D swirl slime.

And Gust King Alexander's ability activates!

Whenever a D/D monster is summoned, Gust King can revive another D/D monster from the graveyard!

D/D Berfomet, return to the field of battle!

And now Berfomet's ability activates, doubling the level of my swirl slime to four!

With that I take my swirl slime and Berfomet and build the overlay network!

I Xyz Summon!

D/D/D Wave King Caesar!

And with that, Declan had his Fusion, Synchro and Xyz monsters out on the field. His smirk, though well concealed, was triumphant.

"I end my turn." He then did that badass thing where he pushes his glasses up. "Good luck getting past this, Yuya Sakaki."

This would have technically been the first time he saw Declan duel, as Yuto knew better than to attack Sawatari. So he'd pretended to be in awe and hiding panic. "I draw" Yuya called, grinning at the card he got. This was the moment he'd been waiting for.

So what made you finally decide to hide pendulum summoning anyway? Yuto asked.

"I set the pendulum scale with Scale 4 Performapal Trump Witch, and Scale 8 Xiangsheng Magician." He called, the pendulum zones appearing as everyone's eyes bulged out of their skulls.

"I'm taking control of this duel starting now!"

It wasn't what he would normally say, but it seemed to fit better.

"Swing far, Pendulum. Carve the Arc of victory!

My monsters are ready to swing into action!"

"WHAT?" Was the collective opinion as he pendulum summoned the monsters in his hand, grin wide.

He then proceeded to whoop an entirely unprepared and thoroughly shocked Declan.

Payback was sweet~!

"To see the look on Reiji's face!"

1.3

"Hey, Yuto?"

"Yeah Shun?"

"Where's my dueldisk?"

"...You...lost your dueldisk!?" Yuto asked, feigning bewilderment and internally rolling his eyes while smirking.

"No!" Shun yelled indignantly. "It was right next to me before I went to sleep, now it's gone! All I found was my deck!"

"It's gotta be in this warehouse. I'll help you look..." He was still trying not to chuckle. The cryptic message Yuya gave him earlier suddenly made sense.

~0~ Earlier...

"Hey Yuto?"

"Yeah Yuya?" Yuto grumbled, trying to go back to sleep.

"...If you hear someone coming into the warehouse, it's just me."

"Alright Yuya that's...Wait, What?! Why are you coming over here?"

"Trust me on this. I'll explain at the battle royale.

"Okay..?"

"Oh yeah! And uh...try not to let Shun go crazy."

~0~

"Have you checked around that couch?"

"And underneath it, and on the ledge above it!" Shun said, starting to panic slightly.

Yuto blinked. "Why would you think it'd be up there..."

Their conversation became indiscernable as Yuya walked away, a purple duel disk folded up and tucked in his loop pocket as he sprinted off.

But he was certain that had he had looked back, he would have seen Yuto having an extraordinarily hard time trying to keep a straight face in front of a panicking Shun.

1.4

"Now, tell me what the hell is going on!" Hugo shouted.

Utē(Yuto) had smirked and replied, "Only if you beat me in a duel, pawn of fusion."

Evidently, that had not been the right thing to say, as Hugo had gotten even angrier and yelled "It's HUGO! Not FUSION! Why does everyone keep calling me that!"

This was another of those name-changed loops Asuka had told him about. Though both Yuto's and Yugo's names were still pronounced the same way, (at least for Japanese speakers), they were just spelled differently.

"Clear Wing, attack!" Hugo shouted.

"Dark Rebellion!" Utē yelled back, gesturing for his Dragon to meet Hugo's.

Yuya sat casually on a park bench, watching the duel. Utē had been adamant about him not intervening. This loop, he'd planned to get revenge on the pawn of fusion for kidnapping Ruri every other loop. And the guy's name was apparently Hugo.

Hmm... Yuya pondered. That does does sound close to the Japanese word for fusion...

Pawn of fusion...

Wait...

"Whirlwind Helldive Slasher!" Hugo shouted.

"Revolt of Lightning Disobey!" Utē also shouted.

Ah, whatever. He'd kept those thoughts to himself so as to not distract Yuto. He'd tell them when they were done.

Yuya glanced up at the nearby camera that had short-circuited, and took note how it slowly came back online.

An amused smile appeared on his face as he waved to the now online camera.

Utē and Hugo were pretty evenly matched. Even without the loops(at least to their knowledge), Hugo was a pretty good duelist.

Then Utē started whipping out the cards from his combined deck that he got in that one weird variant loop.

Yuya then pulled out the popcorn he'd brought in anticipation for the slaughter.

~0~

"Yuto!" Shun yelled in recognition. Then he noticed the two other people also at the scene.

Across from Yuto, was a blue and yellow-haired guy standing by a very weird motorcycle. A closer look at his face showed that, except for the hair and eyes and clothes, he looked exactly like Yuto!

And sitting on a nearby bench, was a red and green haired boy with goggles perched on his head. One of his legs was crossed, and he sat there, watching the duel between Yuto and that other guy, seemingly amused and making no moves to stop it.

"Who's- -?" A closer look revealed that just like the other guy, except for the hair and eyes, he looked like Yuto too!

"Akaba, what's going on?" Shun demanded.

Reiji frowned. "I don't know who the motorcyclist is, but the boy on the bench is Yuya Sakaki." His eyes darted between the three. "They all have the same face. What could it mean..?" And why wasn't Yuya doing anything?

"Is he eating popcorn?!" Shun screeched. And sure enough, when Reiji checked, Yuya Sakaki was still sitting there casually, but now he had a bag of popcorn in his arms.

Then, out of nowhere, there was a big explosion of light and the cameras short circuited again.

"Get those cameras back online!" Reiji called to everyone in the room. And they began furiously typing, wordlessly following his orders.

"What the heck is going on?" Shun asked to himself, eyes wide and still staring at the blank screen.

Reiji rubbed his temples. He had long since wondered that himself.

1.5

Noboru Gongenzaka, At the request of his friends, had been waiting outside. But that had been quite awhile ago, so it was understandable that he went to check on his friends and make sure nothing was amiss.

What he had not expected to find,

Was the two of them deep in a kiss.

The creak of the door opening alerted them to his presence, and they both pulled away, faces flushed a deep red not far off from the shade of Yuya's hair.

An awkward silence filled the room.

Gong was the one to break it.

"I...the man Gongenzaka, apologize for interrupting. I will be waiting outside." And the door closed again.

The room was silent even after he left, as both teens just realized what they did, Yuya especially.

If possible, Yuya's face flushed deeper as he stammered "O-oh... I'm- - I'm so sorry! I-I-I don't know what came over me-I..." She cut him off with another kiss.

This one, though shorter, got the message across.

Yuya cleared his throat. "S-so...does this mean we're..." He trailed off.

She gave a shy smile. "I-If you wanna be..."

Though Yuya couldn't help but immediately backpedal. "Isn't this too soon? I mean... we're only...like, 14... "

Yuzu stared him in the eyes, an eyebrow raised, then giggled slightly. Yuya realized what he just said, and blushed. "Oh...right."

Yuzu giggled again and said, "I love you Yuya."

His eyes got a little watery. "I...I love you too Yuzu, and I'm sorry it took time looping for me to realize it."

She rested her head on his chest, his hand came up on her back, holding her to him, both just happy to be together.

1.6

He sat next to Serena, and Yuzu, staring at the open sky full of stars the night before they were supposed to set off as Lancers. Yuzu had agreed to let them stay at her house for the night, Yugo and Yuto were all off doing their own thing, and hopefully Yuto was apologizing for associating Yugo with Academia all.

"The loop ends tomorrow, huh?" Serena said, an eyebrow raised. She hadn't fully understand what was going on with these... Loops. So Yuya had explained it to her.

"Yep," Yuya nodded, popping the P.

"It's really short." She noted. "Only a month or two."

"It is" He agreed. "Though me and Yuto once managed to drag it out for another half a month. The loop ending times can vary. According to Asuka a, some of the Yugioh Loops don't have set-in-stone stop points. Rather they end when you hit certain events. Like the Lancers going to the Synchro dimension.

Serena hummed in thought. "So you and Yuto managed to make the loop last longer by delaying Reiji's plan?"

"Yep. We got them to postpone the tournament for a couple of weeks" He confirmed.

"And how'd you do that?" She inquired.

"Weeeell...I may have blown up the stadium..."

She stared at him. "Seriously?!"

"Yep" He said, popping the P again.

"How did you even get away with that?!"

Yuya smirked at her. "Yuto snuck inside and made it look like the real solid vision malfunctioned. It was my idea."

She chuckled, but wondered how he'd thought of that. At that moment, Yuzu's eyes blinked open and she woke up, yawning.

"Is it morning yet?" she asked, still drowsy.

Yuya offered a gentle smile and said in a soothing voice, "It's the middle of the night Yuzu. Go back to sleep. We'll wake you up in the morning." And the pink-haired girl complied, curling up next to him.

Before he realized what he was doing, he had brushed his hand through her hair, which was down. When he noticed what he'd just done, he immediately retracted his hand.

Serena was eyeing him the whole time.

"You...really care about her, huh?"

"Yeah...Yuzu's my everything..." he realized, going back to staring up at the sky.

They sat in silence for a moment before Serena broke it by saying, "Does she know that?"

Yuya had to really think about it for a moment. He never realized how many times he found himself being overprotective of her, of how many times he'd find himself jumping through hoop after hoop to ensure nothing bad ever happened to her, even when she was looping and could definitely take care of herself.

"I...don't think she does." He said. "Honestly, I wasn't even sure until now."

Serena nodded. "Well, I may not know much about this kind of stuff, but I do know that if you like someone, you should tell them." She said. And she made it sound so simple. Maybe it was just that simple.

"You're right, Serena." He said, tucking Yuzu in. "I'll tell her the next time we're both awake."

Serena yawned and curled up in the sleeping bag Yuzu had given her. Yuya bid her goodbye, and left.

As she drifted off, she had a smile on her face.

Somewhere off In Yggdrasil, the admin Fand ticked a box off in her shipping pair book.

Welcome everyone to the latest entry in the infinite loops project! I hope you liked it.

Loop rules:

These time loops use the system established by Innortal who has written time loops for Naruto, Bleach, Ranma and Harry Potter amongst others, and then been further developed in Saphroneth's loop stories. The following info is integral for understanding the loops.

The Anchor is the first looper to start looping. They're also awake for every single loop, and more often than not, are the main character. At first they'll be by themselves, but as time goes on more people are added to the loops, becoming "awake" for some loops.

There will always be at least one anchor in every loop, though it may not be the local one.

Sometimes a loop will have more than one anchor, as is the case for the first series, Zexal, Arc-V and VRAINS.

A loop itself usually goes from when something important first happens and ends either upon death or other forms of demise or after a certain amount of time. (The Amount of time it lasts varies between branches)

When someone does something that breaks the world and forces a new loop, they crash the loop and can end up with them looping in someone else's time loop. This is called a Fused Loop. The worse the breakage, the more likely the universe will make the loop something horrible for the loopers as punishment, also known as a punishment loop.

Fused loops can also happen at random, or because an admin allows it.

Along with that are Variant loops, which are altered versions of the baseline.

And the baseline of a loop is like...what normally happens, (without variant or fused loops, or intervention by the loopers.)

Each of the individual Yugioh series is its own separate set of time loops. Each of the main boys (and partners, if they have them) are the anchors for each series respectively. The only difference is that it's easier to force a crossover between the series loops

This story will primarily focus on Arc-V, and perhaps VRAINS, later on.

Arc-V loop rules:

Cut off point is just after activating Cross Over for Yuya and Co, the morning after escaping security for Yugo and Yuzu/Zuzu (Though that is going to change soon).

Starting loopers are Yuya and Yuto (Soulbound co-anchors), with Yugo and Yuzu/Zuzu and Serena/Selena active as of some of these loops.

Leonite had Shun looping in his Arc-V chapter, but I'm not going to show him looping for now. As for when I'll actively proclaim him a looper in my story, well, we'll see.

~0~

I've seen other loop stories do this, so here:

1.1:

Yes, Yuzu showing up before the set point is kinda...predetermined (at least until she and a certain other person start looping(You're welcome to guess who and why))

1.2:

Prepare to see switches between the sub and the dub.

And you gotta admit, Reiji was a bit of a jerk in season one, even if for the right reasons... and even if he is a certified badass.

1.3:

Trust me, I'm going somewhere with this one...

1.4:

It's about time they sorted that out. And at this point Yugo is looping.

1.5:

Come one, you all know you wanted to see it happen. And at this point Yuzu has also started to loop.

1.6

Its a loop or two before 1.5. (Remember, theses are NOT in order.). Serena's looping and yeah, their loop is pretty short, but not for much longer.

Honestly, I'm not sure where I was going with this one, especially. I was writing it at 11:50 on and wasn't really thinking straight.

Note: We have at least one looper from every dimension, which is good for stabilization.

Yes, kind of short, and a lot of loopers added in this one chapter. I don't think that's normal for a lot of loop stories but Arc-V has long since been done, so I'm trying to speed this along.

See you in the next chapter!