Okay, right now it is about 2 in the morning and my eyes are feeling incredibly heavy right now. I shouldn't really be awake for the sake of my health, but I just can't seem to sleep, so I decided to start a new series called "The Sand Arc" which, as you may already have guessed in the 20 seconds after reading the title, is about the sand siblings. Now, the Sand Arc is the general arc title. The arc I'm currently working on at this moment would be "The Kazuki Arc". That would be the sub-arc to the general one. If you still don't get it, look at this:

The Sand Arc - Overall Arc or otherwise known as the General Arc or just plain Arc.

The Kazuki Arc - The Arc WITHIN the Sand Arc, therefore making it the SUB-Arc

Get it now if you didn't before? Good. Next chapter, I introduce my OC character of whom his name was given away at the subarc's title. Yeah, his name is Kazuki. Sabaku no Kazuki to be exact, and that means that he's related to Gaara, Temari, and Kankuro. His rank is missing-nin,jounin, and he's the only one in Gaara's entire family that has black hair. And, like Gaara, contains a demon which of whom defies all the laws of demons. That law stating that the strength of a demon is dependent on how many tails it has. That would mean that the lesser tailed demon would be deemed much less worthy than a demon with greater number of appointed tails. Simply put, Shukaku, the one tailed demon, is the weakest and Kyuubi, the nine-tailed demon, would be the strongest. HOWEVER! Kazuki's demon defies that entire law with its one tail being as strong and maybe stronger than Naruto's kyuubi. I DO have a reason for making him equal or stronger than Kyuubi. That's because Naruto's the hero and all that crap and is always the winner of battles and everything and I decided that the hero's got to lose sometime, right? Thus, Kazuki and his one tailed dragon was born! And this one tailed dragon's name is...Ryu! Yeah, it's lame since Ryu basically means dragon in Japanese :P. So, I decided to change it to RyuGinsei, which means Striking Dragon and not just plain dragon. I'm not very good with names, which is why I gave Kazuki's unknown eye technique(i.e. Sharingan, Byakugan) the name Ginseitaka, meaning striking hawk, absolutely nothing to do with eyes. I've done enough explaining, now you have to read.

God it was hot! But then, what would you expect from Suna in the summertime? A freezing cold tundra wasteland? I don't think so. Gaara was doing his usual stack of about a million pages of paperwork until Temari and Kankuro came busting through the door with Baki and a few Suna ANBU following suit. They seemed to be excited or shocked by something. Gaara just looked up from his paperwork and stared at the group of panting shinobi in his office.

"Gaara! You...need...to see...this!" Kankuro managed between his gasps for breath. Gaara immediately got up from his desk, although he probably only got up to get away from the evil paperwork, and walked outside to the raging sands of his village, only to see someone he had never hoped to see.

"You missed me, Gaara?" Said the stranger.

At Konoha

A hawk indicating Suna's quickest messenger bird flew into the delivery center to bring a message to the hokage from Suna. Shizune quickly unfurled the scroll as she sent away the bird and read the scroll. Her eyes widened as she dashed to the hokage's building, the scroll safely tucked under her arm. She burst through the door, making contact with a slacking hokage.

"Tsunade-sama! Kazekage-sama has insisted on sending some of our shinobi over to the Sand village ASAP!" Shizune said with one breath. Tsunade instantly shot her head up and ordered for a certain few shinobi to go. The assigned ninjas were excited to be visiting their high and mighty friend over at Suna for the first time in a long time. As soon as they were sent off, they made their way there as fast as they could go. They tried for nonstop even. After two days of nonstop running, they made it, although one day early. The four shinobis ran through the gates, mentioning to the guards that they were there to see the kazekage, and up the kage's building to see their friend, only to meet a very unexpected sight.

"Gaa--...ra..." A joyous bouncing blonde said quickly at first, but ended slowly. There was another shinobi in Gaara's office and he had a scratched forehead protector, just like members of the Akatsuki. He had black spiky hair in the pointy fringe style and aqua blue eyes that were, at that moment, quite serious looking. He was a bit taller than Gaara by about an inch or two, wore a black jacket, a white inside t-shirt, navy blue cargos, and black ninja sandals. A band-aid adorned across the bridge of his nose and arm bandages were found on his arms. He had Gaara in a headlock and was giving him a noogie(sp?). Naruto, Shikamaru, Sakura, and Kiba were a bit overwhelmed, surprised, and confused. Who was this stranger?

"Who are you?!?" Naruto yelled at the taller boy, who let go of Gaara's head and relieved it of its pain as he stood up again and looked at the somewhat angry and befuddled blonde boy standing before him. "What are you doing in Gaara's office?!?"

"If you must know, my name is Kazuki. I just came back to my home village, to my home country and this is my greeting? Wow, that's harsh. But as long as you're here, might as well let you know that I should be living here. I AM related to the kazekage."

"You're related to Gaara?!?" Naruto just stood there, more befuddled as ever as the taller boy just nodded slowly.

"So who might you guys be?" The boy named Kazuki asked the group.

"I'm Naruto Uzumaki, one of Gaara's friends!" Naruto exclaimed loudly as Kazuki nodded, his hand under his chin.

"I'm just some guy here on a troublesome mission..."

"I'm Sakura Haruno."

"Kiba Inuzuka! And this is Akamaru!"

"Ahh...Gaara's friends huh? Even better for a welcoming party! Say, Naruto. Would you mind telling me about those whiskers on your face? They seemed oddly familiar..." Naruto sort of shuffled his feet but then stood as tall as he could and spoke proudly.

"It's because I have a Jinchuuriki in me. The Kyuubi." Naruto told the newcomer, who snapped his fingers and remembered about it.

"Ah...I remember now! Well, my fellow Jinchuuriki, let me introduce myself even though I already have. My name is Sabaku no Kazuki, but you can just say Kazuki. I'm 16 years old, about 189cm tall( that's about 6 feet), also a container for a Jinchuuriki. My Jinchuuriki is a one tailed dragon named RyuGinsei. My rank would be missing-nin, but I came back so techinically I would be about Jounin rank. Believe it or not, the Sabaku family has a bloodline only certain family members can practice. The art of controlling sand. Need anything else to know? Just ask. I'd be happy to answer." Kazuki finished, a small smile on his face. Gaara was too engrossed in paperwork to really care since he had about a whole month's worth of paperwork before him.

"Hey Kazuki! Let's have a battle! Since you're a Jinchuuriki too, it'll be fair!" Naruto requested as Kazuki got up from his seat and grabbed his sword.

"Then let's get the battle started!" And so it did.

And that's the end of the first chapter. Next chapter is the battle. Guess who wins! I bet you can since I told you at the top. Read, Review, give constructive criticism, whatever! Just do something!