( Action for Kurenai, Ino, and Hinata and Kiba )

[It's well past midnight before an announcement comes, after he's made this post and spent a few hours going over the discussions there. When people are either busy with the information he gave them, or asleep.

He smokes a cigarette on his way back to his apartment in the night air, putting it out before he steps into the building, his posture falsely relaxed until he steps into his own room.]

Sarutobi Asuma is gone. [There's a pause and- no, he doesn't think it was mentioned.] Also, Haruno Sakura returned to her world a few weeks ago, for anyone who knew her.

Funnily enough, I haven't seen that masked Akatsuki guy in a while either...

[Too many people to filter that too. It's vague enough, but anyone who needs to know should get what he means. It would have been better news if he'd known before.

He'll answer journal comments in the morning.]

( Cut for tl;dr || Action for Naruto and Hinata, if they want )

[Whether or not he finished what he was thinking about, his eyes snap open at some point, hearing a noise out into the hall - glass breaking, and footsteps that don't belong to any of the people who work here. Cautiously, Shikamaru grabs his journal and moves to the door, peeking out from it into the hallway.

Ah. Droid bots. And from the way it's him they focus on, it looks like it's his turn this time.

Perfect timing. He opens his journal.]

Hey. Someone come keep Chouji company for me, huh? 

[Giving one last look at the bed behind him to make sure his friend is still asleep, Shikamaru grins and drops his journal to the floor before walking out of the door.

...unbeknown to him, it didn't close all the way and is still recording. The audio is duller, recording a conversation much farther away, but one can still make out what he's saying.]

Oi, do you morons always have to break shit when you kidnap someone? Seems to be a running theme. But you don't need to bother on my account.

I give up.

[From here, the journal has nothing to record but silence.]