There is a scene after the sand is retreating, when Gaaras teacher gets called by some other sand ninjas to look at something, it shows the Kaze-kage being dead with flies buzzing around him, thats when they realized that Orochimaru set them up, which they said was publically addressed to all the countries. So yes Kaze-kage was coming, get killed by Orochimaru who took his face, therefore both died.


Kaze-kage yeah, sorry ;P anyways you guys got the point of the post.