Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-24898666-20140511231900/@comment-28861328-20140528032546

They're dead.

Dead, dead, dead, dead, dead.

Dead.

They, along with all of headquarters, were obliterated by a Tailed Beast Ball that could be seen from across the continent and even then was massive. The confirmation that they were dead comes from the fact that Shikaku resolved himself to death, Ino and Shikamaru felt their deaths, since they were mentally communicating at the time, and, and here's the kicker, the massive explosion that took them, and most of Kumogakure with them.