History Fanfic / SugarPlums

-->''"It's one of the reasons you should play music, because the feelings it makes, the emotion, it's a connection. It's a connection to every person who has ever heard and enjoyed a song. It can reach through generations, into the past and the future and over many different lives."''

-->''Man she really had no idea how true that was.''

* WorldHalfFull: Kirigakure is harsh, cutthroat, elitist and ruled with fear, but not a total dystopia as good people do exist who want change for the better. It'll certainly take time, but putting down the roots of real change is the goal of the rebellion.

* TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless: For a long period of time, the main characters can actually do very little to improve their situation or the situation of their village. This is actually noted several times in character as a major frustration for the main character because of the lack of [[RealityEnsues control and influence she has in the situation as the lowest rank of shinobi]]. It's also noted she lacks information because the events in Kirigakure are not very well documented at all in the Naruto universe and most of the underlying problems were started decades ago and have been perpetuated since then. This changes however once they catch up the the beginning of the series (the first eighty chapters or so take place starting five years before the start of the main series).

* MusclesAreMeaningless: Averted and explained. It's explained a lot of shinobi prefer a thinner build because it makes it easier for infiltration missions so they can pose as merchants and courtiers and chakra can make them much stronger than a normal person regardless. Also it's just harder for shinobi to build muscle because you have to really exhaust muscle for it to get bigger and the healing factor of chakra requires you to do so either to the point where you've exhausted your chakra as well, or by actively suppressing chakra while you exercise. The former is very difficult but also increases your chakra endurance, the latter gets results more quickly and your overall strength is based how much your chakra can boost your existing muscles. As such most of the characters have done the latter and Ume in particular has to wear baggy clothing to hide how unnaturally muscular her tiny frame is.

The author is known to have a very high update pace.

Has a secondary fic that tells events in the story from alternate perspectives, called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11911863/1/Sugar-Plums-POV Sugar Plums POV]]''.

* HollywoodHealing: Averted, very much so averted. Every time something horrible happens to someone, they will usually have scars.

It is a first person story about Ume, a normal girl who was reincarnated into the Naruto universe. Except she wasn't born in Konoha, instead she was orphaned and then raised at an orphanage in another famous village, specifically Kirigakure, during the time of the Bloody Mist.

The story spends a lot of time on world building within the village of the mist, and focuses mainly on several original characters besides the protagonist as well as expands more on less seen canon characters. It also explains a lot of problems and fallacies of the village that caused it to fall into the state that pushed it to have so many strong ninjas defect.

Has a secondary fic that tells events in the story from alternate perspectives called ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11911863/1/Sugar-Plums-POV Sugar Plums POV]]''.

* WordOfGod: The author reads all their reviews on fanfiction.net and if someone asks a question will usually reply back with an answer or an explanation.

* KillerRabbit: Averted with [[SummoningMagic summons]] used throughout the story, especially the rabbit summons. Unlike the normal summons in the show, it's shown most of the rabbit summons can't fight at all and are in fact cowardly in natural, getting jittery around summons or normal animals they consider predators. They however are excellent trackers, natural sensors as well as a great means of sending messages.

* HeroicBSOD: Ume has one after [[spoiler:most of her graduating class dies in the Kaguya invasion]].
* HeroicRROD: One of the reasons some people think Ume being a shinobi is a horrible idea is [[spoiler:every battle she has can result in this happening because of her lower than average chakra, her pushing herself to keep fighting lowers her overall durability. The worst injuries she's gotten so far was her hitting the ground so hard after running away that she broke most the bones in her body.]]

** Chapter 61: [[spoiler: Kansen dies when their attacked at sea on their way back from the chunin exams.]]

* TheMeddlingKidsAreUseless: For a long period of time, the main characters can actually do very little to improve their situation or the situation of their village. This is actually noted several times in character as a major frustration simply because of the lack of information she has because the events in Kirigakure are not very well documented at all in the Naruto universe and most of the underlying problems of the village at least a decade if not centuries before she was born. This changes however once they catch up the the beginning of the series (the first eighty chapters or so take place starting five years before the start of the main series).

* OriginalCharacter: Most of the cast are Original Characters, which is actually necessary because Kirigakure has the lowest amount of named characters in the series, the amount that are still alive by the Shippuden can be counted on one hand. All of whom have individual personalities, fighting styles and backstory.

* ThemeNaming: The seven families have this at least in some of the main houses, the current Hozuki have Suigetsu (water moon) and Mangetsu (full moon) from canon, and also their father Chigetsu (Blood Moon). In the Kishi Hiroshi and his father Hiroto have the same kanji for their first names, and in the Sumire all named characters are named after flowers.

* CombinationAttack: The fact that each character tends to specialize and the high emphasis on teamwork means that there are a few of these, though the only one seen on screen is the [{TornadoMove White Dragon]].

* HollywoodHealing: Averted, very much so averted. Every time something horrible happens to someone, they will have scars.

* ObfuscatingStupidity: Ume in early life decided to hide her [[WiseBeyondTheirYears adult level intelligence]] from her caretakers by not talking at all. She notes this wouldn't have worked if the orphanage wasn't overstaffed.

* WorldBuilding: One of the biggest features of this comic is just how much time is spent expanding on the otherwise relatively unknown place known as Kirigakure and the Land of Water, as well as unaddressed facets of the Shinobi system as a whole.