Rebecca
Niko nodded, turning away from Murano as he flipped through a few hand seals. Not before long he would find a target, a thick tree a few meters shy of him. He would slowly crouch down and place his palms flat against the ground. Closing his eyes he would began imbuing the earth beneath in earth chakra, as the chakra spread out to four lines, getting into a square formation around the tree. Opening his eyes back up, he could feel how little control he had over these lines of earth chakra, considering how far he was pushing them out. 

Taking a deep breath, The Sarutobi would push him hands harder into the ground, as four spikes which sat in a square array converged towards the tree. Each one was *Very* Thin, and as soon as it hit against the tree, the spikes shattered. He sighed, knowing he wasn't the best at earth release. Niko stood up, and turned to see his partner, asking him about his technique. "It's alright i guess. This is only my first attempt.."
Nelson
Murano watched as Niko failed his attempt at his own jutsu. Well, at least he wasn't the only one having issues here. 

"Might want to focus on making the spikes thicker. More chakra, maybe?" He suggested as he quickly flipped through the Water Assassin seals once again. Water would slowly form around his forearms before shooting upwards into the shape of two blades. They looked sharp, maybe enough to cut apart some fabric or the like. They resembled a katana in shape too, albeit slightly curved near the very ends.

"This is more like it!" However, his excitement would be short lived as the water blades quickly fell apart. 

"Damn..."
Allen
Looking towards the Keizo who was currently shooting off some sort of water projectile, he focused in on it from afar, using his skill in sight.

Turning his head towards the tree, Niko grabbed his chin and began thinking. *'More chakra? That's probably why..'* He thought to himself, as he mimicked his earlier movements. Crouching down to the ground, and placing his hands flat across the dirt, Niko began to pour earth chakra below. Spreading his chakra out into four places, in a square around the tree, he began to pour more chakra into the technique, as four extremely thick spikes arose from the ground, in an angle towards the tree.

Niko smirked, but it soon faded as each pillar broke off from the base, because of the amount of weight, it was slow and couldn't hold. He got up and kicked the ground, in anger of not getting it right.
Nelson
"Hey, that was a good try. You at least got the chakra input down now." Murano commented as he checked how much water he still had. Plenty enough for a few more tries, fortunately. 

Taking a deep breath, Murano flipped through the seals for a third time. Once again, the water would shoot up his forearms to form long sword-like blades with his hands at their core. This time, he'd made a point of focusing heavily on the visualization on the blades. He waited a few moments, hoping they'd hold in place. He often found himself troubled with visualization when it came to this sort of training.

Sure enough, they kept their form! He did a few practice swings with his new blade appendages, delivering a few deep cuts on a nearby wooden dummy. It felt good when you finally got a technique to work.
Allen
Niko looked back over to Murano, taking a second to clear his head. "I guess you have a point, i just need to keep the chakra output in between what i did in my previous attempts.." He said, as he crouched to the ground, resting his shins and knees on the dirt as he began to focus. 

Concentrating on what he needed to do, he sent the correct amount of chakra through the ground and towards the exact same spots where he had been releasing the technique. He set the chakra up, forming a shape, and then pulled the spikes from the ground towards the tree swiftly. They crashed into it, the sharp points drilled into the tree, but not too much. They needed more speed..

"Hmm." Niko took note of this, and walked towards another thicker tree for him to practice on! He needed to train some stealth as well, so he oughta do that after this technique he's learning is perfected.
Nelson
"I always have issues with chakra input. It's probably the hardest thing about learning new techniques." Murano, with Water Assassin still activated, began to do some light sparring swipes at the training dummy to gauge how he should move with the jutsu activated. It was like swinging a sword, but if the sword was part of one's body. It was goign to take some getting used to, that was for sure. 

From the corner of his eye, he watched Niko's next attempt at his own jutsu. He was definitely improving, that's for sure. An attack like that, should it be sent Murano's way, would certainly be difficult to dodge without taking some form of damage. "Looking good, Niko. Probably just need to work on speed a little bit." 

Seeing as how he got most of the movement down for Water Assasin, Murano began to slowly pour chakra into the water blades to sharpen them, sort of how he'd do it with his Chakra Scalpel. The water wavered slightly, but remained in their blade form. "This is harder than I thought..." He commented.
Allen
"Yeah, speed seems to be the thing that i'm getting stuck on... I'll improve, like you are. Just keep it up." He said, trying to get Murano to keep trying his best to try and get better. Now, it was time to finally master his first elemental A-Rank Technique. Doing as he had done so many times before, the Sarutobi sat on his shins as he held his hands against the ground, focusing on the chakra within the ground below him as it was split off and led to four spots along the square array around the tree. It didn't take long for this process, since he had done it so many times, it was just this time he was going to actually do the technique. With some concentration, four spikes were pulled towards the thick tree with great speed, as all of them skewered straight through it. Niko Smiled, glad he had finally learned the technique. Now he could say he was getting a lot better at Ninjutsu. Maybe his dad and one of the older Sarutobi like Rainbow, would start congratulating him for his elemental mastery endeavor.

***(Earth Release: Earth and Stone Bamboo Shoot Technique / A-Rank / Finally Learned)**

***(Start of training)**

Now that he was done learning his technique, Niko could start focusing on training his stealth, since he had been putting it off for so long... He would finally get to a higher level of sneakiness! This was something he was quite excited about, given his skillset literally being almost all about stealth, other than his skills with a knife, and paper. Paper Style, one of his most prominent abilities, other than having all of the elements. He could fly with it, make constructs with it, and even conceal his appearance using Paper Style. They worked really well with Stealth. He liked that. Ok, onto training his stealth then..

Not too long after thinking about all of this, Niko would body flickered away into the bundle of trees, as he began dashing around between the width of each thick tree to conceal his movements. His speed was so fast, that possibly only someone highly intelligent or someone with the Sharingan could calculate a pattern. He had no doubt that Murano could, given that he was a medically inclined genius. Well, from what he's seen, that's what the Keizo is. Niko honestly wondered, what did Murano do in his free time? This was Niko being curious, as he generally wanted to know what the Officer did, knowing all of that knowledge.

In the end, it didn't truly matter since he wasn't asking Murano directly. Oh well, maybe he would after he was done training his stealth. Was Murano good at stealth?