Hey everyone Tauni is back for another adventure that explains some of the plot mysteries in InuYasha's Match. Welcome to the prequal: A New Life. It doesn't really matter what order you read these in if you are new to the story so if you wanna wait till I finish this one to move onto InuYasha's Match feel free to do so.

For those of you who are familiar with the story I hope you like this little detour and it lives up to what you have come to expect with my writing.

Hope you all enjoy the chapter and please don't forget to review!!!

Disclaimer: I do not in any way shape or form own inuyasha, but my established original characters plot lines and writing in general from inuyasha's match and any more I may come up with along the way are definatly MINE!

Tauni sighed as she walked down the tree lined path on her way to school. She was going to be late again, but frankly she didn't really care. School was so tedious. She hated it.

The bright young woman was completely unchallenged academically, causing her to be bored out of her mind everyday during all of her classes. But being bored wasn't really why she hated it so much, she could handle being bored. It was the fact that she just didn't seem to fit in that bothered her the most.

You see while she lived in Tokyo, her family was originally from the United States. Her light brown hair, violet eyes, the light dusting of freckles across her face, and her thick accent made it hard for her to just blend in with the crowd. Add to that the fact that she was probably the smartest one in the whole school, and you don't win any popularity contests.

Everyday it was the same thing: get up, go to school, come home, do homework, study, go to bed. Let's face it Tauni's everyday life was extremely mind-numbingly dull. The weekend wasn't much better either.

You'd think that having more money than one person could spend in a lifetime and everything you ever wanted just handed to you would at least make your life interesting. Unfortunately, that was not the case.

True, Tauni could literally do anything her heart desired, but the problem was that lately she was just plain fed up with her life. The only time she was ever really happy was when she slipped away unnoticed from her studies and took one of her horses out to an old prayer house she had found on her property.

The young woman was sure at one point the small structure was a part of the Higurashi shrine next door, but over time she had fixed it up and come to think of it as her own private oasis.

Tauni shifted the weight of her book laden backpack from one shoulder to the other as she reached the end of the path that lead to the Higurashi shrine.

Taking the shortcut through the woods that connected the two properties was a lot faster than following the road and today cutting some time off her commute was a good thing.

As she neared the Higurashi home she couldn't help but wonder if Kagome had left yet. The two girls used to be such good friends and would walk together to school everyday. Tauni missed those times.

Over the past couple of years the two had grown apart, and Tauni regretted not keeping in touch.

Tauni was pulled out of her thoughts when she saw Kagome up ahead. Still too far away to be heard, Tauni picked up her pace hoping to catch up to her old friend. She was puzzled when, instead of heading to the steps leading down to the street, Kagome ran into the well house and pulled the door shut behind her.

Once she was within what she thought was hearing range she called out to Kagome.

"Hey Kagome, wait up! What are you doing in there?"

There was no answer. Hmm she must not have heard me.

With an extra burst of speed Tauni ran over to the well house and slid open the door.

"Kagome, what on Earth are you doing in…"

Tauni glanced around the well house. Kagome was nowhere to be seen. That's weird there's no other way out of here, and I'm positive she came in here.

Her violet eyes fell on the old well in the middle of the small room. She wouldn't have. Would she?

Cautiously Tauni walked down the steps and peered over the edge into the ancient well.

"Kagome! Are you down there?! … Hello?!"

Tauni couldn't see the bottom of the dark well and she was beginning to get very nervous. "Kagome c'mon. This isn't funny. Are you okay?"

The silence was stifling and Tauni decided the best move would be to head back to the Higurashi house.

When she turned around to head up the stairs and a terrible howling screech echoed in the small building, causing her to stumble backwards and fall into the dark well.

As she fell she saw Buyo's chubby cat face looking down at her with a scowl.

Tauni braced herself for the inevitable impact of the hard well bottom but it never came. She was suddenly engulphed in dark blue swirling lights and then dropped gently on her hands and knees onto the dirt at the bottom.

The shocked teenager stared at the ground under her. What the heck just happened? Whatever it was it can't be a good thing. Stupid cat scaring the crap out of me and making me fall down here. There's no way I'm gunna get back up this...

All thought left her mind as she looked up to the top of the well and was greeted by a clear blue sky. There wasn't supposed to be a sky when she looked up, there was supposed to be the inside of a well house.

Dropping her backpack to her feet, Tauni looked at the wall s of the ancient well planning the best way out. Carrying her pack up the vertical climb was not going to be an option, but she wasn't just going to leave her stuff down here. Rifling through the bag's many pockets she finally found what she was looking for.

Since most of her schooldays ended with an exciting run through the woods to get home, Tauni was always sure to carry a first aid kit and a length of rope. The rope was what was going to come in handy this time. After carefully tying one end of the rope to her pack, she secured the other end to her wrist and began the short but challenging climb up the well wall.

With one final push Tauni heaved herself over the edge and once her feet were back on solid ground she pulled up her backpack.

It was only then that she took a look at her surroundings. She was quite litterally in the middle of nowhere. The shrine and the well house were no where in sight and the only thing she could see were trees. Something had definately happened whe she fell down that well and if she ever got back home Kagome had a lot of explaining to do.

In one single moment Tauni's boring life got a whole lot more interesting.