Inevitable- unable to be avoided, evaded, or escaped; certain.

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They say that living in close quarters with friends helps all the more when getting to know one another.

They also say that friends who live in close quarters with each other have a higher chance of getting into arguments then friends who do not.

That statistic was one Uzumaki Naruto and Haruno Sakura had preferred to ignore, figuring they were both to different for that to apply to them. After all, they'd beaten the odds of everything else, so what could one stupid statistic mean to them?

"You destroyed my kitchen?!"

To be fair, he'd allowed her apartment to be destroyed, but that was beside the point.

Sakura stood in the middle of what had previously been a normal kitchen floor, but was now covered in an unknown brown substance. His table had been swallowed by the stuff as well, but it was his cabinet that worried him the most.

Despite the pile of…whatever around him, he managed to make it over to the cabinet, yanking the door straight off.

"No…"

All of his instant ramen, every last bit, was covered in the brown goo. It had completely ruined it.

"I thought you might be hungry, since you just got back from the hospital and all. I never was the best cook but I wanted to give it a try…"

Naruto glared, a true glare, which hardly ever grazed his features. "Couldn't you have tried it somewhere else? Or not at all."

Sakura frowned, and then her guilt turned into anger. "Are you seriously getting angry with me right now?"

"You killed my ramen!"

Sakura gasped, holding a hand to her mouth. "Oh so your ramen is that important to you? I am so sorry," she moved through the goo, forcing him to move backward as she got to the cabinet containing his ramen. "Let me help."

Before he understood what was happening Sakura had grabbed the nearest box and thrown it on the floor, trampling it with her foot.

"That's better!"

Naruto's hand fisted, tightening by the second. Sakura grinned, until she saw a smirk make its way across the boy's face.

"Alright Sakura. Two can play at this game."

The goo around her made it impossible for her to tackle him before he was across the room. In his hand was her favorite wooden stirring spoon.

"Don't you dare!" She screamed, holding her position.

Naruto shrugged, grinning evilly before taking the spoon in both hands and snapping it in two.

Sakura screamed, lunging for him. He slid across the room, hitting the table and knocking everything onto the ground. She crawled toward him, hand fisted to punch but he threw a chair toward her, blocking her advances.

"I'm going to kill you Uzumaki. I'm going to—"

Splat.

Every muscle in her body tensed.

She raised a hand up and wiped at her face, watching the brown goop (her attempted cake) fall off her arm.

"Did you just throw food at me?" Her voice was deadly quiet.

Naruto moved to a standing position, wiping off the goop he'd gotten on himself from all his dodging and running. "Yes, I did." The 'what are you doing to do about it' floated silently in the air.

Sakura stood as well, cracking her knuckles. Without a word she pulled some off the brown substance off her body and hurled it at the blonde in front of her.

Not expecting retaliation so soon Naruto's took the hit, straight to the gut. The table behind him didn't support his weight, and he went down to the ground, effectively getting covered in more goo.

Thus the battle began.

It was inevitable that Sakura's super strength would end up wrecking his entire kitchen.

It was inevitable that he'd resort to shadow clones to gain the upper hand, and finally corner her.

It was inevitable that her stubbornness would rival his own, and they would both go crashing to the ground in an attempt to defeat the other.

"Give up!" Naruto yelled, holding Sakura's hands against the ground. She struggled to get out of his grip, but even with her chakra control she couldn't find the will to focus enough to utilize it. She was too angry at the knucklehead on top of her!

"Not until you apologize!" She screamed, kicking at his stomach. From his position he couldn't afford to dodge, and took each blow. Still, her never wavered.

"You wrecked my kitchen!"

"I was trying to make you a cake!"

"With cooking skills you don't have!"

"I thought you might want something else after suffering through hospital food!"

"You're the reason I had to eat hospital food!"

"You got me kicked out of my apartment!"

"It wasn't on purpose!"

"Neither was the kitchen accident!"

"Fine. I'm sorry!"

"You didn't mean that. I'm not giving up until you-"

He kissed her, taking anything she may have said and swallowing it. In the back of his mind he knew he was being rough and very unromantic covered in cake mix and sweat, but it had been too much to take. Sakura was undeniably sexy when she was angry, and even covered in cake mix shouting profanities at him she took his breath away.

He was wrong to have yelled at her, especially when she was doing something for his benefit, so an apology was something he would give her willingly.

But this, this is something she would have to give him in return.

Sakura felt her hands be released, and would have moved to get up if not for the twinge of pain on her bottom lip. Naruto was biting it, and not to lightly. It was a challenge and an opportunity at the same time. She could push him away, and pretend none of this had even happened with the anger being the excuse.

Or she could fight him back, and possibly change everything between them.

She caught his stare, those blue eyes daring her to make a decision, wanting her to so badly. He was confident about this, but she was so insecure. If she changed things, could they ever go back? Would they want to?

With her decision made Sakura moved her hands up, wrapped them around Naruto's shoulders…

…and kissed him back.

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Sorry about the wait on this one. I've got a lot of things going on right now, so reviews won't be as quick. (That goes for BOC as well. I'm way overdue on that fic.)

Thanks for the title suggestions! I'm choosing between two for J, and I'm excited to write the next chapter. I am still taking suggestions for future letters but the next main one I need help with will be O.

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