Hōki (Takumi)

is a ninja from the Takumi Village. He and his group abducted Matsuri, Gaara's student, to get access to Gaara's 1 tailedShukaku powers to revive Seimei, Takumi Village's founder. He had a brief fight with Gaara in which he summoned all the weapons of his fallen teammates and used them to attack Gaara with their combined attacks. Because of Gaara being short on chakra and his supply of sand had ran out, he was quickly defeated. Then, Naruto came to his defense, but he also wasn't strong enough to hold against the power of the combined might of the Takumi Village. Hoki was just about to finish Naruto off, but Gaara intervened and used the last of his chakra to protect him. Annoyed, Hoki turned his attention back to Gaara and trapped him in a sphere that siphoned off the remaining of Gaara's chakra. He sacrificed his body and life force, added with Gaara's chakra, to revive Seimei. But getting his chakra drained brought Gaara into his Shukaku form and he killed Seimei.

Trivia

 * His name, meaning "treasured tortoise" comes from Genbu, the Black Tortoise of the North.
 * He had a sword that could shoot out streams of fire.